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? | Professional Cards, Dr. R. C. McC ABE Dental Surgeon, Office in Hirsch building over Kingstree Drug Go's. 8-28 tf k Dr. R. J. McCABE Wk DENTIST, flNGSTREE, - S. C ^^Bffice in McCabr Building, next to Court House. f M. D. NESMITH, DENTIST, Lake City, S. C. W. L. TAYLOR DENTIST, Office over Dr W V Brock! agton' b Store, HINGSTREE, - S.C. 6-21-tf. 1866 1914 ^A. M. SNIDER, 13 SURGEON DENTIST. Orer Gamble & Jacobs' Drug Store. J. DeS. Gilland Attorney-at-Law Second Floor Masonic Temple Florence, S. G Benj. MclNNES, M. R.C. V. S. B. Kater MclNNES. M. D.. V. M. D VETERINARIANS. One of us will be at Kingstree the first Monday in each month, at Hel ler's Stables. 9-28-tf IkjfiV] KINGSTREE Lodge, No. 46 I A. F.M. / . Br meets Thursday before full moon each M month. Visiting brethren are cordially W inyited. . R W Fulton, W M. V J M Ross. Sec. 2-27-ly f Kingstree Chapter, Order Eastern Star , Meets every Thursday night after full fks later. E Clarkson, W M. Secty. 1 -28-tf ^stree Lodge,1 tits of Pythias 5ns every second and ' nights. Visiting Icome. Castle Hall, luilding. 1-14 lvr 1E Clarkson, C C. t & S. Kingstree CAMP NO* 27. tMrui Munmi The ThirdMuadajr Night In enoh Visiting choppers roiilally invited tootre up and sit on ast im. or^haag about on tbf P H Stoll. -I M Brown. Clerk. Con Com I Look! Listen! | ^Ispmet hing New | Kingstree I T.J. Pendergrass | has just opened up a new 8 5cand lOc DEPARTMENT STORE B Don't fail to call and see ? them when you come to 8 town. We have the greatest g values at 5c and 10c that 5 ever struck Kingstree. ^ | NET CASH i nour only terms in this de- I ' Pendergrass Bros. Co. I Kingstree, - S. C. S 'Phone 14. IBBS I* Whenever You Need a General Tonic ,f The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless 1 cbiil Tonic is equally valuable ?.s i General Tonic because it coai.cns tbc well knovntonicprofertiesofQUINIKt and IRON. It acts on tuv Liver. 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MM! it paid -1 1 1! >1: hi. b- <>r ; ai. V ;i<>!i t?l\ I if <i 1 mo payab? anJ *.vl < car h< '! ?a?:. 1 till write ::tiy -wl' 111 ol (he n?j:St to- ! oi<>!? of lSVa jn.twiiii led Co j 12tit l-J the j SlipeBV'SOTs Oi' K?. i-ti ?i ion ?>r ? "( < I tMIl ?LoV? (hat I 1 OURS. Kiel i ll-' pr.it ail taxes "ol ectible on dtiruiit tht j present year pioperty in-tins Stmt assessed at t h- -e hundred '.dollars 01 j I .isoiv it A ..lEYSit, I > > I Scientific Ho If you own a horse, are ; scientific horse-shoer, or are y cut and drawn out of shape b; man shoeing horses for a life and driving them on, is not U nothing of the anatomy of th* when he is crippling the horse Shoes to remedy Knee A< Banging of Knees, Cutting Cross Firing, Overreaching 9 Everything of scientific ul The hoof has an oily sut should not be placed on it. as ] hoof from time to time will dr: ing th ? hoof to break off, and impossible to keep the horse s. F. A. S' 1 TOT WAR | 11114 If 1111 I BlJ I J. L ST' I H AS 1 1 Horses ai I For Sale or IJ. L. ST ?? Livery, Feed ar |j Lake City, n wishes you a Prosperous Ne1 takes this occas (sincere thanks mers'and frien for their libera during the yeai ting to a close, your future pa will do our best i . lip? K' I ''J U Jfllll U iiiJi Hi i '" fyHr in in ii ii rffltrfggTTff rr-in r-* i no ftecors I is equipped 1?> print y rse-Shoeing! I you having him shod by a .1 ou having his feet crippled, | y an inexperienced man? A time, just turning the shoes ) be trusted, if he knows i hoof. How can he know i by injuring the hoof? :tion, Throwing of Shoes, of Ankles, Slinging Mud, [, Etc bility for the horse's hoof. >stance in it. A hot shoe 1 _ V _ J. _1 i. 1 placing a not snoe Oil uie i up the oily substance, causin some instances making it hod. TALL. IS ON US T I UCKEYI iOTH I id Mules I Exchange. | ittk it v S V Vll A> * w id Sale Stable South Carolina || arcus Happy and w Year, and ion to extend to his custods in general il patronage I t* now draw- I We solicit I itronage and I to please you. | * : P ! MiHiuu, i)t u, 1 I I ! lob Of* ice OH!' HOI :>X-itioiiery / . * -* -- -ahv * AN OPTIMIST ON TOBACCO. Mr. Duke Considers the Outlook for His Company Very Bright. James B Duke, creator of the American Tobacco combination, and chairman of the Board of Directors of the British-American Tobacco Company, has broken his long established rule of not talking for publication and has given a representative of Dow, Jones & Co, publishers of the Wall Street Journal, of New York, some of his ideas on conditions in the tobacco industry here and abroad. Mr Duke is an optimist on the general outlook for the BritishAmerican Company, and believes that this, of all the tobacco companies, has the largest possibilities for business expansion. BRITISH-AMERICAN IN CHINA. "We have made big progress in China," said Mr Duke. "The possibilities for the British-American Tobacco C-ompany there can hardly be overestimated. I sold the first cigarette ever sold in China. That was many years before the formation of the American Tobacco Company. We go into a new country and teach the people to smoke?just so did the Standard Oil Company enter strange land3 and teach the use of oil. "It has taken many years to build up our business in China. It is only now being put a paying basis. We were willing to take a*loss there for ten years because we saw great possibilities in the country. We sell cigarettes there as cheap as 15 for a cent, and can show a reasonable profit at that price. The Chinese are always suspicious that the retailers are trying to sell them something else than their own particularly favorite brand. They will go to ail sort" ui extremes tu maae certain that nothing 'just as good' is being passed off on them. "In India I consider the prospects for the British-American Company to be even more favorable than in China. We have built three large factories in India, and our sales there have more than doubled during the last two years. The selling conditions in India are also more favorable than in China. In the latter country marketing of our goods amounts almost to a question of barter. In China and India combined there are 700,000,000 people ? *even times the population of the United States, We built up a powerful tobacco industry here. Consider the possibilities for the BritishAmerican Company when two of its territories alone have seven times the number of people that the old American Tobacco Company sold to. "We have recently gone into South I America, and the field appears to j me to be a favorable one. There is ! competition there, of course, but we thrivp nn enmnetition. In the lone run the fact that there is competi' tion is rather pleasing to me. It makes us work harder. BUSINESS IN GERMANY. "In Germany I am very much in the dark as to the future of the British-American Company. The Jasmatzi concern, of which we owned a majority of both common and preferred slocks, is still running-, i according to the latest reports we have receiv. d. But it should be remembered that the German subsidiary has nevvr proven a big money maker for the British-American Company. It has only been during! the last two years that we have re-i alized anything to speak of on our J investment in Germany. "War times and other periods of general depression have never resulted unfavorably for the tobacco industry. In fact, at the time of the Cleveland depression there was an actual boom in the tobacco industry of this country. The man out of work will always find son e way of securing enough money to keep himse'f in tobacco. It might J be imagined that with the number j of troops sent from England to the ! Continent the sales of tobacco on; the British Isles would have fallen j ! off. But rather the opposite is the j 1 case. The many camps throughout Kngland have their hundreds of [ thousands of men who have much spare time, which they devote to | :he use of tobacco. Were they not i in these camps the majority of these j)";r i?uld ' e so nrnp'./ved t the ! i / business unless he centers his activities there. Export business can not be run as a side line to domestic business. - The American Tobacco Company and the Standard Oil Company were successful when they went abroad, but it was only because they had the financial backing. The British-American Tobacco Company, with its globe-circling business, was a possibility only because it had the American Tobacco Company back of it. "Everywhere we hear the demand that the United States build up its export trade, but as long as the country's Administration sees fit to restrict big business, just so long will export expansion be on a proportionately restricted baais. However. I have great confidence in the American people and believe they will continue to kick out the directors of nnco r?.-Jimac tiarn until o <"?/inrli_ l/UOIli*. Ovl pvi iVIVO li\. 1 V. Ulibll L* WUUI tion is cieated conducive to favorable American business expansion. VICE-CHAIRMAN OWEN'S VIEWS. Hugo Cunliffe Owen, vice chairman of the British-American Tobacco Company, arrived in this country a few days ago and expressed views on the outlook for the BritishAmerican Company very simi'ar to those of Mr Duke. He said that England cannot understand why this country is not wonderfully prosperous just now, as all Europe must continue to buy here throughout the next year at least. Mr Owen said that the cash position of the BritishAmerican is a very strong one and that the dividends in the year just closed would have been as large as in 1913 but for the war. The business since the war began, he said, had not been seriously cut into. Mr Owen repeated the statement of Mr Duke, that there is considerable ur.c. rtainty as to the future of the Ihitish American Company in Germany, but this uncertainty is cau>mg no worrunent amor.tr the directors. He ment on -d the s? fting aside of a fund of ?1,5 )0.100 to take care of the lo<scs of the war, but expressed the belief that these losses would not anywhere nearly reach this amount. lie said the board of directors were of the belief that it was the part of wisdom and conservatism to set aside this amount in advance, while the progress of the company in the countries not affected by th^ war went al^ng without interruption. use of tobacco would be impossible durinsr the day. "To my mind the possibilities for i expansion by the British-American Company are pra?tically unlimited. It is only a question of time to develop trade. We expect to take our losses in the new territory for the first few years, but in countries in which we are now well established it will take a new competitor anywhere uo to twentv-five vears to give us trouble. The statement ' made by the American Consul at Hankow to the effect that the British-American Company has secured a majority of the cigarette business of China is correct. "The British-American Company is in a very strong financial position. In fact, its position is such that I am of the belief that no further financing will be necessary in the near future. It is hard to tell as yet just what effect the war will have on the company, inasmuch as it takes two or three months to secure full returns of our operations throughout the world. However, I have every reason for believing that our sales since the close of the last fiscal year have been up to those of a year ago for the same period. ADMINISTRATION POLICY AND EXPORT BUSINESS. "It is difficult to see how you can expect American interests to go after export business on a large scale. First, the Republicans came along and broke up big business and now the Democrats seem determined to break up little business. To go after export business requires ample capital and the combinations were the only ones that could afford to take their loss for a number of years in an effort to build up a big foreign business. Does it seem reasonable to suppose that if you divide one of the large companies into many parts, that these parts will be in a financial position string enough to warrant their going after foreign business? I talked with a cotton mill owner recently and asked him why he did not go after foreign trade. He said he could not afford it. "No one can build up an export