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Digging Up Raw Materials. Roger Babson. the statistician.j made a speech recently in which he j said that all the vision, initiative, en-1 t thusiasm and thrift in the United ? * - * * a a. . r 1 States is locaea up in two per ceni 01 , the people. "If these two per cent were sudden- ' Iy wiped out," said Mr. Babson, "this nation would go back fifty years." j To demonstrate that his percentage ( was high rather than low, 4ie asked j the audience to consider their own j city, representing a population of about one million. Two per cent of this would be 20,000. Does a city of a million contain more than 20,000 people who can be, relied upon in an emergency for brains, energy and faith The point Mr. Babson made was j that the great, undeveloped natural \ resource of America is?men. Double the percentage of men and J women who dream, think and do, and ; we can double our progress overnight, j Here is an astounding thought. To show the great potentialities | that exist in men, Mr. Babson cited j the instance of a man who, five years * ? - i I ago, was delivering express pacnages at $10 a week. He is now in charge of the sales of a company doing busiI ; ? f Mm 4 J J - What do you know about tire construction? Do you know that there are six important fundamental features in a tire? ?that any one of them is just as important as any other one? ?that to over-emphasize any one mere1.. * ?-l 1^. 4.1U ly lurmaucs scucs LCUJW at the expense of real tire quality? MImgwv $r TIRES In the Brunswick . these six essential features are co-ordinated into one composite, scientifically balanced tire. Try one and be con* vinccd. Kingstree Hardware Company Kinsrstree. - S. C u / ? ? J 7^1 * '* SV ly ness of a million dollars a year. Another man, who six years ago was repairing Mr. Babson's garage, is now and expert on commodity prices. And a girl doing important work in his organization today was two years ago a Western Union mos senger. "The raw material for the development of leaders in industry, commerce and finance is abundant and inexhaustible," said Mr. Babson. "Fortunes await the men who will take the trouble to woik this material up into the finished product. "That is the way I have made most of my money?not in buying and selling stocks and bonds." Notice is hereby given that T. E. Frierson and S. J Singletary, former ly salesmen and collectors, are no lenger employed by us. KINGSTREE FURNITURE CO. It. o King Corn on Throne With the cotton crop going way past the earlier estimates and with potatoes in great plenty, and with wheat, while disposed to lag, yet much beyond any possible home consumption, there yet remains the high 5f. si ^SmmmmSScSS v'" ' ?i K-A-. est honor to give to King Corn. Firm- ] ly seated on the throne he is prom- i ising the country a bigger crop even J than the war avei-ages. The practical importance of these bits of agricultural news is the effect upon the price level. King Com ( and his associates, wheat, potatoes 1 and cotton, have commanded a gener- ' al drop in the level and the drop will 1 go on and will be continuous. Only base mamp uii and marplots can affect the process, and these will be 1 swept aside with their petty profits before the inevitable decline. How far will the price level drop? Not to anything like pre-war conditions, but if a generous fraction can be sliced from the couple hundred jjust A Car load Rock Lime, * Car load Sash and D< Car load genuine I ' Car load Hydral Car load Acme Car load Poi Prices R] Kingstree Ha | Hampton Street, a | y | Intel ? UAVE n Z TO MC E: **' i < | IMTtftNATI J ; { TAILOQ i i -5 ^ V | ^ compares wi ? 1 When in i si I i$t/ ; - .- ) per cent increase, living may be made supportable. That is what it is nbi at the present time. So King Corr is a good old soul and his associate, in the government of the relating sustenation are deserving of the hon ors of the republic. While a lot oi economic crabs are in wordy war: over this, that and the other device: of government, the soil, the basic sup !>ort of all humanity, is giving foitl words of golden import for the relie of the people from the stress of ex istence. May the message from th< throne of good King Com be fulfilled in all respects.?Baltimore American o Most special favors draw a higl interest. Arrived >ors (white pine) ted Cedar Shingles, ;ed Lime, i Cement Plaster, rtland Cement. :ght at irdware Co., Kingstree, S. 0. Ve Re< nation* MADE . I. A/URE 1 SG CO. C *-?wmo ri ji th them in. point of Need of Gothin < <>f - *Xr'o ,c ... ?V* ' ; ' ?'. ! Which Insurance Company issues t the most attractive policy? ! Ask R. D. Mills, 7-22-tf. GASOLINE SYSTEMS Oil Tanks and Pumps, Air Computr ing Scales, Floor Scales, Show Cases, Account Registers, Rebuilt Cash .Registers, Safes, Store Fixtures. THE i HAMILTON SALES CO., Columbia, 1 S. C. - 1-29-lf f _ II pi III 11II jflr If YOUR blood tells W run-down condition, . I health and the joy < I Dr. Thacher'sLivera I purifies and vitalizes I the Liver, keeps the . I up the whole system. I Mrt. Tennie Parker, of San teeti&h, N. C., says: "I I was sick 13 jean. Had numb spells, my feet and hands cold, pain in my left side; not able to do any thing. I tried several doeI ton. One said I had heart II trouble and was liable to THACHER I VL OrttUMCi, =1 j ? I ? ? I ? I* I ? ? d ? 1 ? I ? I ? I ? ? I > ? I ? i rommen il Tailo t r * because by so doin^ that we are buildinj selves a lasting pi; esteem of our patro ' * * 4 Style, Workma Pure Wool Qualit tures which are ne perfect dress, but v recommend the In for these reasons, o season we urge tf International Clotl on the strength of t prices--we know of honest values. g Call and See I ur KiuMTntr nn iil mnuu i iill vii COMPANY "The Store of Qual 3NGSTBEE, SOUTH M*l*l'll*lf IM* PI* II I* I* I* IT \ \ ' < -V/ . Lodge, No. KM A. F.MT Meets the second Thursday night in each month. Visiting brethren cordially invited. E. L. Hirsch, W. 1L, H. L. Prosser, Sec. 1-1-ly. J a tale of depletio^uid MAK^E it tell a tApf |ff )f life; by the nsRf II tnd Blood Syrup;which* II J| i the Blood, regulates Iff Bowels open and tones II Sold by your druggist. II drop dead any time. So I ll quit doctors and began tak- || a inpr 'DR. THACHEE'8 || LIVER AND BLOOD || SYRL'P.' It has cured me Iff ?I am well new and able V | to do all of my work. My 11 A weight is now 145 pooadi." Iff Q ; CO. ^ * J :-K-K-Kfi4^ff?CT;fi?ffl 1 ....... w . ? I I : jj | ring |i y we know j - | y for our- i ? ice in the \ ' i\ ns' 11 nship and 1 j y are fea- g :cessarv to tfc J t laj I Cm vt do not j gj |j ternational i ?5 ^ nly. This i jjjgflj le use of I ?j J lies solely I EjpjH rheir keen |j EE none that ? B n t i H I Uur Lme | ; If!?! I ' rY GOODS 11 1J CAROLINA. flfl 'as';