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A SPi f A SURE GU'JT mm .js fits a L. T. Thomp \== I Jfes 15c lb. Paid I Choice Beef, Mutton THE PEOPL H. IMILLI THE CA! has a good waiting for; your headqi in town. Ai to see you Best Price Paid Floor and Rice a Specialt L_. S. C Next Door to ^ = How to "Ca Eat Pure Food fro We have a full line o guarantee in every ins effort to get the very b you are looking for a r< Flour, Coffee, Te in fact, anything to eat We have it for you. M. H. c ONE. Kingstree, -i A \ w ESTABLISHED 1TM ? 'ffReviUon freres Largest Fur Manufacturer* In th* War Id HIGHEST PRICES PAID FOR RAW FURS Ship your furs to us. We pay all . express and mail charges Write for oar price list 453 Wes t 28th St New York * IRK PLUG OF MANY] MERITS. s SPARK. SOOT PROOF. LEAK PROOF. - ? ? ^ ^ /\TT rvnTn LL AIOTUKS. UiL JJKir FEATURE. itrodes on "Eklips" Plug are so ;d that no oil can accumulate in ng gap between the points.! For sale'by K9B street'Garage, ?son, Proprietor! / II Hi Yur Ht Best Market Price Paid for Cow Hides. Pork, Sausage and Veal. E'S MARKET ER. Proprietor. i ;h store warm room you. Make it aarters while m always glad in our store. for Corn and Peas y. Seed Oats for Sale Here 5EINNIS Heller's Stables =3v in" the Grouch j m the Pure Food Store I f food products that we can tance. We make a special est the market affords. If sally superior brand in a, Meats, Vegetables come right to this store. IACOBS STORE I t. South Carolina Jj -i Neglected Colds Grov Worse. A cough that racks and irritates the throat may lead to a serious chronic cough, if neglected. The healing pine balsams in I)r Bell's Pine Tar Honey?nature's cvn remi :n inrj rnlinuo f^p Jr. I i dljr diu wvuiv auu ivkvtv viiv *? j ritation, breathing will be easier, ;an<l the antiseptic properties will . kill the germ which retarded heali ing. Have it handy for croup, sore (throat and chronic bronchial affections (let a l?ottle today. Pleas ant to take. At all druggists, 25c. i POOR CONRAD'S LETTER t < > When President Wilson proclaimed this day t.> be a day of thanksgiving and prayer and that it should be observed by this nation as $ day of thanksgiving, fasting and prayer and not a day of feasting and frol lcking. l think mis least on turkey and pie out of place, and if this day should be kept as our President desired we should do, it would seem better if we had eaten only the plainest food,or, better still, no food at all. Verv little inconvenience would be experienced in going without food one day. I see by the papers that thousands and thousands of pounds of turkey, cake, chicken and pie ana great quantities of what are called nice things have been sent to the soldiers at the border. That is unnecessary; the government is feeding these men ^and boys, or veterans of the border, as they no doubt will be called after they return home without sniffing much dust or gunpowder. If they are sniffing any powder at all, it's perfume powder. Soldiers feasting on dainties would make poor fighten. Thej would very likely imbibe the turkey trot aid at the first volley from the enemy'a guns would outrun the swiftest gobbler. Just to think of fixing up huge boxes of all kinds of knick-knacks for men who have shouldered the gun and gone to the front with the intention of enduring any and all privations of camp and field. " When the civil war broke out the Confederate States gave the Southern soldier more than he should have had, consequently one-half of the armv got sick and manv died. Of course much of the food was not well prepared for eating, which had a good deal to do with causing sickness. It is quite different in the United States army. Good cooks and utensils of great convenience are attached to every regiment. The meals served them are of the moat substantial sort and not the same every day. The poor Confederate did not have any such waiting on after the second year of that struggle. He had to be content on one pint of ground com,unbolted.that he stirred in a little water bran, and all as it came from the mill; cooking.or rather,scalding,in a frying pan if so fortunate as to have one. or any old niQAn nf fin nn on soma Kaf_ VI biu piV(\VU up VII OVIUV v?t tlefield, but, bless your soul, that made men of them. Ah, those heroes! I see them still in their tattered garments, not at the border in comfortable tents with plenty of good uniforms and warm blankets, but standing around the bivouac fires on a pile of brush to keep the melting snow out of their sockless old shoes or rawhide moccasins. But few remain to tell the tale now. Sleep on, dead comrades, you rest in a hero's grave. While alive we stood shoulder to shoulder, less than half Had and poorly fed. Ah, the private Confederate soldier! look up at him on the top of the column at the cross street. See him with gun in hand. What is he doing at that post? What is he watching for? Does he not say, "My country, 'tis for thee"? I have seen many of them receive what in thosedays was called rations, sit around a fire, cook and eat the whole at once and after that subsist as best they could. Now, that old pint cup was nothing more than the common pint cup often U3ed as a drinking vessel. Sometimes one-quarter of a pound, or, rather, what was called one-quarter of a pound, of bacon per day, weighed with a little draw scale that would point to the one-pound mark without anything on it, would be doled out, so weighing was guesswork. The time for drawing rations was most uncertain. Sometimes 100 pounds of beef would be triven to a company of 100 men. The position of company sercrpnnt was an onnleasant. nnp Somp times I was detailed to perform that disagreeable duty arid occasionally had to hit some grumbler in the mouth. Sometimes the beef would arrive at night, perhaps in the rain, and I have chopped it in from one to five pound pieces with an ax in the muddy ground. Very often the beef would be used up and my men would get almost none. My share then was curses, and now those poor fellows on the border no doubt are beting: their mothers and sweethearts to ask those in authority to ' let them come home, and the mothers are doing so for those dear weak: lings. What should that great Naj tional Guardsman say? "We have ( come to stay; for war, if necessary, j or for peace." What did the Sparj tan mother say to her son when he left home for the war? "Come back victorious Or come back on your shield." The Spartan soldier fought with short sword and shield. Fighting was done at close quarters, not at long range, as i9 done now,and when he fell in battle he was borne from the held on his shield. What would President Davis or General Lee have said if the Army of Northern Virginia had gotten their mothers to beg for them to come home. "I want to see my ma. Boohoo! boohoo!" Now a little more about Confederate service. I came home, or rather, to South Carolina, for I had no home. The army was more home to me than aoy other place. I was I innn/iorl of fko koff 1o nf Qk r rva_ TTUUUVItU Ml> VI It imVVIV V* v/iaatt pw burg in Maryland September 17, 1862, by a cannon shot and came home for thirty days, returning late in October,and remained in the army until the |aurrender at Appomattox April 9, 1866. Two cannon of my battery fired the laat cannon shots at that spot. The ammunition waa all ahot away, and some of my company ran to our first lieutenant, saying. "Our ammunition is out; where can we get more?" He did not say he wanted to go home; the surrender had already taken place; he replied, "We don't need any more." Ragged few but undismayed,when one was heard complaining during those days of hardship or wanting to, go home he was called a croaker,and there was but little croaking. Poor Conrad. Kingstree, Thanksgiving. 1916. DOES BACKACHE WORRY YOU? \ Some Kingstree People Have Learned How Yo Get Relief. How many people suffer from an aching back? How few know the cause'.' If it hurts to stoop or lift? If you suffer sudden, darting pains ? If you are weak, lame and tired Susf?ect your kidneys. Watch for nature's signal. The first sign may be headache or dizziness. Scanty, painful, or too. frequent urination. Nervousness or a constant, deadtired feeling. Avert the serious kidney diseases, Treat the weakened kidneys with Duans Kidney Pills. A wr\ rv-? r\A XT QOIVlftiollu f A P HH- ' rv (CTUJCUJ C0JA/CI?UJ *V1 0ivn v. | neys. Greatfullv endorsed by residents of this locality. Mrs 0 D Middleton, 17 S Jarrott St, Florence S C, says: "My kidneys were out of order and I had dull pains in the small of my back. I A-assore and lame in the morning and tired easily. My head ached and I had spells of dizziness. The kidney secretions were also unnatural, and I had dther symptoms of kidney trouble. I used two boxes of Doan's Kidney Pills and they relieved all symptoms of the trouble." Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't imply ask for a kidney remedy?get Doan's Kidney Pills?the tame that Mrs Middleton had. Foster-Milburn Co, Props, Buffalo, N Y. ? - ^ CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR EXCURSION Fares Between all Points on Atlantic | Coast Uoe, Standard R. R. of the South. Also to practically every point in the Southeast, including Washington. Cincinnati. St Louis. Memphis and New Orleans. Tickets will be sold December 20. 21, 22, 23, 24 and 25; limited returning to reach original starting point by or before Wednesday, January 10, 1917. For schedules, Pullman reservations and any further information call on W W Holliday, Ticket Agent, Kingstree. S C. l2-14-2t Constipation Makes You Dull. That druggy, listless, oppressed feeling generally results from eonstii* - tii.^ :?i i: i pauon. 1 ne mutinies arc cmggcu and the blood becomes poisoned. Relieve this condition at <>nce with Dr King's New Life Rills; this gentle, non-griping laxative isquickly effective. A dose at bedtime will make you feel brighter in the morning. (Jet a liottle to-day at you ^Druggist, 2">c. f \ Streich ii ?/?^our I M: TWO ways of stretching your i pull on it from OPPOSING fering pay envelope FAIR stretching it the WRONG WAT. you and the better half can get rigl nnTTT TJ*TW a A A TITST tk* VT1 kave a TIDY IUX ia QUI BANK OF ! HE ALMOST LOST HOPE IN REPEATED FAILURES. CharlisiiD Mir Dtclirts lit Wis Up ill Itwn All Night Lti{.. "almost drove m? crazy." Charleston Railroad Man De? ? 1 ??tk.l .1 I .of WLm. Haa Coaquered His Troubles. "Tanlac has done a great deal for me. Since I began taking it I have gained ten pounds in weight and I do not suffer with any of those distressing ailments and I am steadily improving in health and strength." In these words,\V H Lewis,a Southern Railway section foreman, of 44 Drake St, Charleston, summed up the great relief Tanlac, ' 'The National Tonic," hadgivenhim. Mr Lewis' statement follows: "My system was generally run down and out of tone before I began taking Tanlac. I was a sufferer with indigestion and nervousness. I had i?i-,i ?:_.i:? conienueu wun imugesiiou iuiu^umiach troubles for about twenty-tive years and it seemed that nothing I took would givenie permanent relief, and generally I failed to get relief. I have taken a great many different medicines and have been treated by physicians, but I continued to suffer with my stomach. "Gas formed in great quantities on [ my stomach and I was troubled a j great deal with pains around my heart. At night I was very restless, and my sleep was broken and unrefreshing, and I was up and down all night long. Pains in my abdomen also added to my troubles and discomforts. "I was subject to severe attacks of nervousness, and when my nerves were in that condition, any noise, if it continued a while, would almost drive me crazy. "The Tanlac advertising had caught my eye, and finally I decided to take it, even if so many other medicines had proved disappointing to me and had done a lot to kill my faith in medicine. But Tanlac proved the exception to this rule. Tan lac has done a great deal for me. I have gained ten pHinds in weight, and I do not suffer from any of those distressing ailments as I did. My appetite is good and I digest what I eat, and I do not have those pains after eating as I once did. "My nerves were quieted by taking the Tanlkc, and I also improved so much that I can sleep well now and I feel much better and more refreshed in the morning now than I used to. In every way I feel a I whole lot better. "My wife also took Tanlac, and it gave her just as satisfactory results as it gave me. "I am glad to recommend Tanlac, because of the results it gave my wife and myself. Tanlac has been of great benefit to both of us, and I highly recommend it." Tanlac, the master medicine, is sold by Kingstree Drug Co, Kingstree; Mallard Lumlier Co, Greely ville; Fanners' Drug Co, Hemingway; S S Aronson, Lane; K P Hinnant, Suttons; W D Brvan, Bryan. Lax-Fos, A Mild, Effective Laxative ft Liver Tonic Does Not 6rtpe nor Disturb the Stomach. In addition to other properties, Lax-Fos contains Cascara in acceptable form, a stimulating Laxative andTonic. Lax-Fos acts effectively and doe9 not gripe nor disturb stomach. At the same time, it aids digestion,arouses the liver and secretions and restores the healthy functions. 50c. fe\&lue ncom^^ ncome: First, you and your wife car ENDS until the poor little long sufLY GASPS for BREATH. That's ' Second?and the RIGHT WAY? it down to BRASS TACKS and work DIE to SUCCESSFULLY that you'll I i* NO TIME. TRY IT. KINGSTREE. Aad Me First Will be Last. The untimely death of Jack London has given sincere grief to hundreds of thousands throughout the United States who never knew him psrsonaily but did know him through his books. It is curious that the last novel that he wrote should be in the same field as the first one that really brought him fame. "The Call of the Wild," a dog story, was really the first of London's books to place him where he belongs?in the thin ranks of American writers whose works will live beyond this century. In the January Cosmopolitan MagAf*<MA MAm /n ? fLrt MAmM ofnnJa fLn az?iuc uuw uu iijc ucwa oiauuo, is uic first installment of Jack London's last and greatest dog story. It is called "Jerey." "Jerry" is a brave and loyal hero dog who is story brother of "Buck" of "The Call," of "White Fang," of "Batard" and "Brown Wolf" and of "Spot" and "Possum," the immortal sextet. He is portrayed body and soul, as only Jack London, of all the world's writers, could characterize a dog. Mr Ragsdale Entertains. Washington, Dec 17:?The Secrei tary of State and Mrs Lansing were the guests of honor at the dinner ! whicn Congressman and Mrs J Wil1 lard Ragsdale gave last Friday evenjing, at Calumet place. Among the I guests at the dinner were Judge Charles A Wood9, of Marion, and Mr and Mrs R Goodwin Rhett.of Charles; ton. Mrs R Withers Memminger, of Charleston, arrived in Washington i Tuesday to visit Mr and Mrs Rags: dale, and a number of hospitalities have been given and arranged in her ! honor. Mr and Mrs Ragsdale gave i a dinner followed by a theatre party for her Wednesday evening, and a 'dinner at the Army and Navy Club Thursday evening. An Opportunity tor Hustlers. F Lee Sheppy, 8th Floor, 243-W 17th street, New York City, general sales manager of the largest concern ! of its kind in the world, wants three ! or four men in Williamsburg county and several men in adjoining counties, to work for him spare time or ; all the time. He can use only those who have a rig or auto. Work is very pleasant and no previous selling experience is necessary. Work i ennsiata nf leaving a wonderful new ! household necessity in the homes on free trial. Tests at more than thirty i of the leading universities and the j Government Bureau of Standards ' show this new article to be four | times as efficient as article now ^n I general use in this section. Article 1 is -needed in every rural home and benefits every member of the household, bringing cheer, comfort and ; happiness into the home. Not nec' essary to be away from home nights. Pay from $0.00 to $15.00 per day according to ability and number of ; homes visited. In writing Mr Shep py, mention what township will be most convenient for you to work in; what your regular occupation is; your age; married or single; how long you have lived in the community; what kind of a rig or auto you have; whether you wish to work spare time or steady; how much time you will have to devote to the 1 work; when you can start, and about how many homes are within six miles of you in each direction. This is a splendid opportunity for several men in Williamsburg county and counties adjoining to make good money, working steady or spare time. Some of the field men earn $300.00 per month; one farmer earned $1,000 00 working spare time only. No investment for bond nec' etsary. 12-14-4t