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IW j+tfs =. ^ Profassional Cards. I Dr. R.C. McCABE Dental Surgeon, Office in Hirsch building, over Kingstree Drug Co's. 8-28-tf Dr. R. J. McCABE DENTIST, Mrwf/s?nmT?p Q f" JMfNLO 1 HJDC, r ^ v Office in McCabe Building, next to * Court House. M.D. NESMITH, *' DENTIST, . Lake City, S. C W. i. TAYLOR DENTIST, Office orer Dr ff T Brotidngton' a Store, K1NGSTR??? 8. C. 5-21-tf. " [ x m. snider! SURGEON DENtlST. Over Gamble Sc Jacobs' Drue Store. ' DeS. Gilland * Atforney-at-Mw Second Floor lasosic Temple Florence, S. C V Benj. McINNES. M. R. C. V. S. 8. Kater McINNES, M. D.. V. M. D VETERINARIANS. One of us will be at Kingstree the g first Monday in each month, at Hel-! J ler's Stables. 9-28-tf | ^^KINGSTREE Lodge, Ho, 46 ' A? F.M. Tcaeets Thursday before full moon each month. Visiting brethren are cordially inyited. , R W Pulton, W M. J M Ross, Sec. 2-27-ly >?\ Kingstree Chapter, ) ^0 Order Eastern Star 4 Meets every Thursday night after full moon and two weeks later. Mrs b E Clarkson, W M. .Mrs Stella Cook Secty. l-28-tf tKingstree Lodge, No. 91 Knights of Pythias Kfegular conventions every second and fourth Wednesday nights. Visiting brethren always welcome. Castle Hall, k Srd story Gourdin Building. 1-M lyr ? ?uo jr B E Clarkson,. C C. ^ j E C Epps, KofR&S. ?The Third Monday luSytoviteS^ oo&e np and lit on a atom; or^hang about on tbr ' P H STOLL, J M Brown, Clerk. Con Com Look! Listen! j. Something New ? Kings! reel ) T. J. Pendergrass has just opened up a new 5c and lOc DEPARTMENT STORE H Don't fail to call and see I them when you come to i town. We have the greatest W, values at 5c and 10c that ? -ever struck Kingstree. NET CASH our only terms in this department . Pendergrass Bros. Co.' | Kingstree, S. C. 8 Phone 14. | Piles Cured In 6 to 14 Days Yonr druggist will refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days. The first application gives Ease and Rest. 50c. $ , Russia's standing army isn't finding it so easy to sit on the Ottoman. CHICHESTER S PILLS THE IHA.ttOHD BBAXD. A Lad lea! AafcyoarDromUtfor /A ?H Chl-clseo-ter Olamond Brand/fY\ jQfeI'll Is in Kid and Bald meui:ic\V/ 7-y boxes, sealed with Blue Ribbon. \/ Take no other. Bar of your * IV ft UraRlxt. for CHl- lfK^-TEH 8 J C Jr I?IAS?>NT? rRA.NI> PILLS, (or S? , I C 9 years km* n as Best.'wfest. \iway; Keli-l li I SOLD CY DECISIS LVEIMLtf I' V' x ^ | IF NOT, WHY NOT? Whose fault is it? It is not ours. We offer you the necessary requirements to place you on the safe side, and would be more than delighted to WRITE YOU A POLICY that will protect you from all loss by fires at a very low rate. We represent the best and most reliable companies on earth. KfirsfrM Insorance.Real Estate Uoan 60. w. Lltm/lmpr. * I CYPRESS j . SASH ] DOORS j j BLINDS j %%* I W 1 ! j MUULUIflUS J AND " J j MILLWORK 1' ' i Epps' Market All meats bought and sold for cash. Don't ask for credit. Epps1 Mar Ret Cr. Acadamr O Mill St?. gUGH rNING RODS. H. L. WHITLOCH, L?k* City* S. C.? Special Sales Agent Representing the largest manufacturers of all kinds Improved Copper and Galvanised Section Rods. ' Endorsed by the Sighest Scientific Authorities and Fire Insurance Companies). Pure Copper Wire Cables, all sizes. Our Full Cost Guarantee given with each job. 1 soil on close margin of profit, r, dividing commission with mv customers. S-7-tf iima asms Awnnw WATTS'JtWtLKTSIUHt KINGSTREE, S. C. I keep on hand 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. Near tha Railroad Station. THE BAHEY-LEBBY CQ ' RQOF/NG rHAPi <*r VI tru Luuwiwi w?v? Registration Notice. The -TTlice of cue Supervisor oi Registration will be open on the Is: Monday in each month for the purpose of registering any person who is qualified a> follows: Who shall have beeu a resident o? the State for trwo years, and of the county one year, and of the polling precinct in which the elector offers to vote four months before the day of ' election, ant* shall have paid, sii . months before, any poll tax then due and payable, and who can both rear and write any section of the constitution of 1895 submitted to him by tht Supervisors of Registration, or who can show that he owns, and has paid all taxes collectible on during the present year, pioperty in this State assessed at three hundred dollars oi more. H A Meyer, , ' .lerfc ?>1 Itw ; j J 1 Automobile, Buggy, Repair If your Buggy needs Ps Dash, Top, Shafts, Wheels, to F. A. STALL, JR. If you have an Automob Top, Curtains or old top rec you an Automobile that yo Racer? If so, bring it here. If your Wagons, Plows < ery needs repairing bring th F. A. ST fjingstree, iWwI 1 B\ J. L ST 1 HAS 1 Horses a ! For Sale or I j. L. ST jO Livery, Feed i I Lake City, i83em83H3a?%3S^8S Ladies' Su , / Just arrived of Ladies' S made up in styles from creations in > x . - # . Navy and Bl< Sin, 8 The Recor [S equipped to print \ / r ... * i Wagon and General I Work. 1 linting, New Curtains, a new I Axles or any repairs take it 1 iie that need Painting, a new g overed, bring it to me. Have g u wuuiu ukc cxiaugeu ixitu a )r any of your Farm Machinem to ALL) JR., South Carolina ???ipi??mi i ii X2mZ<2ZX:22t22?^^ "OvOvCvCvSvOvCvOyOvOvOvCvOvt ; is onus! JT I UCKEYf BOTH 1 nd Mules | ' Exchange. 1 'UCREYl ind Sale Stable ^ South Carolina ? Springl -o. fP ? its f{ rR ' ,i I' / d Job Office your 1915 stationery; ( ! < 4 , a full line pring Suits, > the latest it. - : L tne newest Sand, Putty ick Suitings. MB, I. C. CUM MET j " , j WANTS NO "DEADHEADS" ON UST OF EMPLOYES. A CALL UPON THE LAW MAKERS TO PREVENT U8ELE33 TAX UPON AGRICULTURE. By Peter Radford Lecturer National Fanners' Union The farmer Is the paymaster of industry and as such he must meet the nation's payroll. When Industry pays its bill it must make a sight draft upon agriculture for the amount, which the farmer Is compelled to honor without protest This check drawn upon agriculture may travel to and fro over the highways of commerce; may build cities; girdle the globe with bands of steel; may search hidden treasures in the earth or traverse the skies, but in the end it will rest upon the soil. No dollar will remain suspended in midair; it is as certain to seek the earth's surface as an apple that falls from a tree. When a farmer buys a plow he pays the man who mined the metal, the woodman who felled the tree, the manufacturer who assembled the raw material and shaped it into an article of usefulness, the railroad that transported It and the dealer who sold him the goods. He pays the wages of labor and capital employed in the transaction as well as pays for the tools, machinery, buildings, etc., used in the construction of the commodity and the same applies to all articles of use and diet of himself and those engaged in the subsidiary lines of industry . There is no payroll in civilization tha* does not rest upon the back of the farmer. He must pay the bills ?all of them. The tothl value of the nation's annual agricultural pfoducts is around $12,000,000,000. and it is safe to estimate that 95 cents on every dollar goes to meeting the expenses of subsidiary industries. The farmer does ?mAVA f Vi o n mfniitoQ IIUU wuift U1VIC uiau lUll vj iuiu v* vvu per day for himself; the remaining thirteen hours of the day's toil he devotes to meeting the payroll of the hired hands of agriculture, such as the manufacturer, railroad, commercial and other servants. The Farmer's Payroll and How He Meets It The annual payroll of agriculture approximates $12,000,000,000. A portion of the amount is shifted to foreign countries in exports, but the total payroll of industries working for the farmer divides substantially as follows: Railroads, $1,252,000,000; manufacturers, $4,365,000,000; mining, $655,000,000; banks, $200,000,000; mercantile $3,500,000,000, and a heavy miscellaneous payroll constitutes the remainder. It takes the corn crop, the most valuable in agriculture, which sold last year for $1,692,000,000, to pay off the employes of the railroads; the money derived from our annua, sales of livestock -of approximately $2,000,000,000, the yearly cotton crop, valued at $920,000,000; the wheat crop, which is worth $610,000,000, and the oat crop, that is worth $440,000,i?f)0. are required to meet the annual payroll of the manufacturers. The money derived from the remaining staple crops is used in meeting the payroll of the bankers, merchants, etc. After these obligations are paid, the farmer has only a few bunches of vegetables, some fruit and poultry which he can sell and call the proceeds his own. When the farmer pays off his help he has very little left and to meet these tremendous payrolls he has been forced to mortgage homes, work women in the field and increase the hours of his labor. . We are, there ? 4/\ /i?ll iirwn oil lore, CUUipeilCU LU von u^vu W. dustries dependent upon the farmers for subsistence to retrench in their expenditures and to cut off all unnecessary expenses This course is absolutely necessary in order to avoid a reduction in wages, and we want, if possible, to retain the present wage scale paid railroad and ah other industrial employes. We will devote this article to a discussion of unnecessary expenses and whether required by law or permitted by the managements of the concerns, is wholly immaterial We want all waste labor and extravagance. of whatever character, cut out. We will mention the full crew bill as V. '. _ . * Illustrating the character of unnececmarv exnermpR tn which we refer. I latures making a position for surplus employes of industry. Let them come I "back to the soil" and 3hare with ua : the prosperity of the farm. When honesty is merely a good policy it is a poor virtue. Lazy farmers are just as useless as; dead ones and take up more room. When the soul communes with the spirit of nature the back to the farm movement prevails. There are two kinds of farmers., One tries to take all the advice he hears and the other won't take any , at &1L After having been in session al- / most continuously for two years, nrrrfl cc ohnrtlv oftoi* \j\jiifz, i v.co nujvui u^u oiiv* vij m* vv? noon Thursday, March 4. Proper Treatment tor Biliousness. For a long time Miss Lula Skelton, Churchville, N Y, was bilious and had sick headache and dizzy spells. Chamberlain's Tablets were the only p Q thing that gave her permanent reliefj Obtainable everywhere. '" - ? ? While the war is on and there is a lull in business, we want all legislative bodies to take an inventory of the statute books and wipe off all extravagant and useless laws. A good house-cleaning is needed and economies can be instituted here and there . that will patch the clothes of indigent children, rest tired mothers and lift mortgages from despondent homes. Unnecessary workmen taken o!T and \ useless expenses chopped down all along the line will add to the prosperity of the farmer and encourage him in his mighty effort to feed and clothe the world. If any of these industries have surplus employes we can use them on the farm. We have no regular schedule of wages, but we pay good farm hands on an average of fl.50 per day of thirteen hours when they, board themselves; work usually runs about nine months of the ypar and the three months dead time, they can do' the chores for their board. It theyi prefer to farm on their own account, there are more than 14,000,<Kfo,000 acres of idle land on the earth's surface awaiting the magic touch of the plow. The compensation is easily oh-; tainable from Federal Agricultural Department statistics. Tho total average annual sales of a farm in, the continental United States amounts to $516.00; the cost of operation is $340.00; leaving the farmer $176 per annum to live on and educate his> family. There is no occasion for the legis similar legislation which requires unnecessary expenditures. The same rule applies to all regulatory measures which increase the expenses of industry without giving corresponding benefits to the public. There is ofttimes a body of men assembled at legislatures?and they have a right to be there?who, in their zeal for rendering their fellowassociates a service, sometimes favor an increase in the expenses of in dustry witnout due regara lor tne mea who bow their backs to the summer's sun to meet the payroll, but these committees, while making a record for themselves, rub the skin of the shoulders of the farmer by urging the legislature to lay another burden upon his heavy load and under the lash of "be it enacted" goad him on to pull and surge at the traces of civiV ization, no matter how he may sweat, foam and gall at the task. When legislatures "cut a melon" for labor they hand the'farmer a lemon. The farmers pf the United t 'ates. are not financially able to c?rrj lead heads" on their payrolls. Our own hired hands are not paid unless we have something for them to do and we are not willing to carry the hired help of dependent industries. unless there is work for them. We must therefore insist upon the most rigid economy. Legislative House-Cleaning Needed. Union Opposes "Foil Crew" BUI. The Texas Farmers' Union registered its opposition to this character of legislation at the last annual meeting held in Fort Worth, Tex., August 4, 1914, by resolution, which we quote, as follows; "The matter of prime importance to the farmers of this state is an adequate and efficient marketing system; and we recognize that such a system is impossible without adequate railroad facilities, embracing the greatest amount of service at the least possible cost We further recognize that the farmers and producers In the end, pay approximately 95 per cent of the expenses of operating the railroads,, and it is therefore to the interest of the producers that the expenses of the common carriers be as small sals possible, consistent with good service and safety. We, therefore, call upon our law-makers, courts and juries to bear the foregoing facts in mind when dealing with the common carriers of this state, and we do especially reaffirm the declarations of the last annual convention of our* State Union, opposing the passage of the so-called 'full-crew' bill before the thirty-third legislature of Texas.'*' The farmers of Missouri in the last1 election, by an overwhelming majority, swept this laun, off the statute book of that state, 'and it should come off of all statute books where it appears and no legislature of this nation should nass such a law or