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jli II The Peopl I COLD STOI Dealers in Beef, Po San i BEST MARKET I I TURKEYS, GEESE, ( | H. A. MIL! Kingstree, mih iinii ii mini 11 mi ; YOUR I Th is ve r vou hav , , ? J ^ II point to consider in m ;; your Fall Suit, THE ;; You still want quality" We embody both th ;; price. SEE OUF THE CITY TAII ; J. V. EPPS.M'g'r. ; Also Cleaning, Pressing, KINGSTREE H/ Funeral Director FIRST CLASS Complete Line C< Metal Vaults ai Mr. L. J. Stac GRADUATE! Has Charge of our and is throughly < DAY OR Day Plione No. 35 :: * :; 1^*1 9 M ' : 'n"" We|may be mi&akei] V. the opportunity, we wil ?! customer. i: Oar Business Depends I We mo& earnestly so 3 will meet your every hard j | That is why you are i ij [pgARD^ -- LT i e's Market! tAGE PLANT 1 rk, Mutton, Veal and ? isages PRICE PAID FOR 1ICKENS & DUCKS r 17P Pmn I *VI" ? South Carolina | ammmimi"!-"! n.?g:? 2 i ii iniiiii 11 ii ii n im ii > iLL||SUIT e one other important ;; aking the selection of " PRICE YOU PAY. :: ?you still want style. ese at the minimum 11 l LINES!!! r /\nfun CUrtD LUIUIIU onv/r K1NGSTRCE, S. C. j , Altering and Dyeing. 31 IRDWARE CO., s and Embalmer [OTOR HEARSE )ffins and Caskets id Burial Robes. ikley, recently * ) EMBALMER | Undertaking Dept. equipped to serve H i NIGHT ? Night Phone No. 12G I wammmmtmmmmmtmmmm HMMlMmiMHMIIIIIIH t many times but, given ; i never fail to satisfy a ; Upon Your Satisfaction. :: licit your patronage. We ;; [ware need. ;; more than welcome here. ;; |i jrk'i'shings'MMm i: . :: ? I \ "LIKE EACH OTHER'S COMPANY Stones Found in Nevada Seem to Have a Distinct Aversion to Being Separated. In Nevada are found curious mineral specimens known as "sociable stones." No better name could be given them, since wiien a few are distributed over a level door two or three feet apart they will begin to move toward one another to a common center with an alacrity that is ludicrous. Campers tirst noticed these stones. They had used wrapping paper for a i tubleclotl) and weighted the corners i with some of the stones sfffead over the level top of a boulder. A few mt. | ments later one of the men noticed that the paper was flapping In the breeze and that the four or five stones were huddled in a group in the middle j of the paper like a nest full of eggs. He thought the wind wus responsible, | straightened them and added more stones. I The next time he looked around the stones were back in the heap again. Once more he replaced the stones and I sat down to watch them. They began ;o roll and hitch along toward one an- i other again until they were in a pile. 1 I I | Egyptian Women Prospering. The fellaheen of Egypt, for cenJ turles the most Ignorant and improvident of serfs, has ridden into prosperity on the tidal wave of reconstruction, and with him his long-suffering wife. ( Still, as In the days of Christ, one may ' see him on his donkey, while his wife, , with her heavy burden on her head, , trudges behind. Yet there Is a real, if invisible change in their relations. ! Through the sudden rise in the price . of cotton from $20 to $100 a kantar : K^nnlnfr rtf tho Wflr thft is met; uic ucgujuiuiK ...v housewife has been enabled to make ] j long-neglected purchases and has been | enabled to display her native shrewdness In bargaining and financial matters. It is she who markets all tha products of the farm. "Who Wrote It?" When Demetra Vaka, author of ] "Haremllk" and "In the Shadow of 1 Islam," first came to America she was governess for a year to the two little 1 grandsons of J. Fenimore Cooper. , The children had been brought up , [ with the utmost reverence for their ^ famous grandfather, and had uncon- ( sclously Imbibed the belief that all the world's best literature was the offspring of his pen. Something was said In the elder 1 boy's hearing one day about one of the ' books of the Bible, with some reference to Its authorship, and the bey ^ looked up at his governess with a ] startled face. ; "Who wrote the Bible?" he dems.n<led, as one whose first faith has be?n j shaken. Demetra Vaka explained as best as : she could '' jut the various books, arid the boy sighed, still a bit incredulous. : "I aways thought," he said slowly, | "that grandfather wrote it" ? Wher^th? Fault Lay. As the Irish police recruit strolled ] along on his first turn of night duty, < loud yells of "Fire" rent the air. Fie J bolted quickly to the spot, and found < a house well alight, with a man half J hanging out of an upstairs window. < "Help! Help!" he yelled. "If I J Jump, will you catch me?' 1 "Sure, an' Oi will!" replied the po- J llceman readily. So the man Jumped, only to crash to , the ground and lie there stunned. ' When, a few minutes later, he recnv ered consciousness, he looked up at the constable reproachfully, and mir- ( mured feebly: J "I thought you said you could catch < me?" | "Begorrah!" replied the Irlshm in. "Ol was only waiting for yez to bounce, an' Ol'd have had yezt"? London Answers. Joined the Army. % A private In the quartermaster's corps at Camp Pike decided that he would 6ooner be In a more active branch of the service, so asked for and received a transfer to the artillery. I After bidding him good-by, his bunkmate hung a service flag with one star In front of their barracks. On being asked what it all meant he said: "Our uoe has Joined the army." Cured. The author of "Trivia" writes: "What a bore It is waking up in the morning always the same person." We had often fretted over this, until the shudder-glvlng thought struck us that we might wake up some morning and find ourself the kaiser. And it would be just our luck to be Bill on the day of retribution.?Boston Transcript Guns on Airplanes. One of the inventions of the great war was the art of shooting a machine gnn through the propeller of an airplane without danger of hitting the "? kio^oc tk<? French aviator. prUpCUCi u?auvo. . , Roland Garros, was reported to be the first man to employ this device, which was used by hundreds of air fighters throughout the war. Before that time the machine gun was mounted above the aviator so as to fire over the propeller blades. Machine guns may also be mounted In a 1 revolving turret or In the rear of the ; airplane. The Browning machine gun j will fire 20,000 shots at the rate of 600 j per minute. -? Pottery.Maklng Simplified. An inventor has patented an electrically driven machine which makes | the rcusrb clay boxes in which pottery Is subjected to heat in kilr.s, work heretofore done slowly by hand. 1 - Is the Negro Dying Out? (Charleston News & Courier) Some time ago, at the time census figures for the country by races were published, The News and Courier called attention to the fact that these figures disclosed a net gain in population for the South of 3,586,107 whites during the decade as against only 162,832 negroes. In other words, for every neirro added to the oodu lation of the South between 1910 and 1920, there were added 22 white persons. It was shown further that with a total negro population of 10,463,013 tne net gain in negro population for the last census decade had been only half as great as the gain between 1890-1900, and that it had been smaller by over 135,000 than the not gain between 1810-1850, when the total negro population was only 3,638,808. So rapid and progressive has been the decline in the rate of increase of negro population in the past thirty years that The News and Courier was moved in the article, referred to to ask: "Is the negro in America dying out?" The same question is now raised by .the Raleigh News and Observer which declares that "records of the United States census together with records from the Registry of Vital Statistics maintained by the State Board of Health of North Carolina indicate that the answer may be affirmative." The Raleigh newspaper de clares that in North Carolina the ratio of negro population in the State has been declining slowly but steadily for the past forty years and that there is now "a wide gap between the net gain per thousand white population and the net gain per thousand negro population annually." North Carolina was one of the first Stages in the Soyth to inaugurate records of births and deaths for negroes and while these records date back only five years their value is already apparent. For last year they show that the white birth in North Carolina was 333 per 100,000 against the negro birth rate of 318 per 100,000 a margin af 15 per 100,000 in favor of the whites. On the other hand the death rate per 100,000 white people in North Carolina last year was 116 whereas the death rate among negroes per 100)00 was 189, the death rate among the negroes per 100,000 being 63 per cent nigher than that among the whites. The net gain in births over deaths by whites was 217, whereas the negro population showed a net gain of only L49 per 100,000 of population. "Pursued mathematically," says The News and Observer, "the continuation < I Williamsb * Tfiie AAttifi y a mo vvui^j v farmers good s( | in large quantit g than the other 11 quality of the s< 5 Every farm ft Make your ov J shouldn't. We J good flour mill 11 flour when you i< Seed are ad I protect yoursel order that you i ing prices? We have oi Wheat?Leaps Rye?Abruzzi Carolina Tall Fulgum and Ap Also Cabbage PI $ Williamsbui | C. J. T | Gourdin Built ft AAAAAAAAAAAAA* of the widening ratio of racial divisions, the decli'ic ill reduce the negro population to less than 15 per cent of the whole within the next 100 years, and will carry it to the vanishing point within two centuries. Many conditions enter into the situation that cannot be reckoned with until they develop, but figured on a mathematical basis alone, the figures are apparently against the permanency of a negro population in the South." Perhaps the most interesting statement in The News and Observer's article is the assertion that in North Carolina, where tuberculosis has received more attention than elsewhere in the South, it has not been found possible thus far to check the ravages of this disease among the colored people. "The unfavorable death rate among negroes in the State," The News and Observer says, "is believed to be due to inferior resisting powers of their race for certain dis^asees chat are prevalent in this country. Tuberculosis, for instance, kills 260 negroes per 100,000 every year in North Carolina, while only 99 white people die from that cause. The contention that living conditions among blacks are unfavorable in the treatment of tuberculosis is apparently answered in experiments that have placed whites and blacks under the same institutional care with the result that the ratio of deaths is maintained." o Send the Cash. When sending in for publication in The County Record notices of hot suppers, box parties or other entertainments given for the purpose of raising money, also obituaries and cards of thanks don't fail to lot the cash accompany same. We positively will not "charge" such notices. The price is 10 cents the line. You count six words to the printed line and enclose money or stamps with notice. If such notice is not accompanied by the money it will go direct to the waste basket, and we have an extra large one for the purpose. This same rule applies to advertisements to be inserted in our "special" or "want" column and to obituaries. If you can't send the money for this class of advertising save your stamps, time and stationery. Minumum price twentv-five cents. tf. o 666 cores Malarial Ferer. ' o Sand The County Record your next ?rder for Job Printing. V>^UWU>OV^V?VV<umuwu^U mWWWWV?mWWWWw urg Distribi iany was organize jeds at a fair price, ies and can afford t fellow. We also eed we sell. ier should plant wt rn flour. No rea have the land, the at your county se can make it? ivancinsr every day f and buy now, or may be protected a a hand this week tb Prolific .. .. at M at at * uv pier Oats .. .. at lants, Rape, Turnip i rg Distributing HOMPSON, M ling KING VAooAAAmVfWWWVfi i GENUINE "BULL" DURHAM tobacco makes 50 good cigarettes for 10c We want you to have the best paper for "BULL." So now you oan receive with each package abook of 24 leaves of the very finest ckiarette paper In the world. (H ' HEARD OWN BURIAL SERVICE Dying Millionaire Had What Might Be Called a "Rehearsal" in Hla Bedroom. . ,j J When Mr. Parker Mason, a shrewd . and level-headed millionaire of the United States, was on the point of dying a few years ago he conceived the quaint Idea of having a rehearsal of his own funeral service In his bedroom. He called in a Presbyterian minister, and h few members of the church choir, and the full service was rehearsed in his presence and that of his family and a number of his friends. The clergyman preached an eloquent and touching sermon on the virtues and charities of the dying man, and the choir sang appropriate hymns. At the ennHnstnn nf the service, which the millionaire had followed with ,the closest Interest and attention, he warmly complimented both clergyman and choir on their performance, and after dismissing them sent for an undertaker and made the necessary arrangements with him and had a personal Interview with th( pall-bearers. He died ten hours later, and was burled with the same service to which he bad listened when alive.?Montreal Herald. lting Co. I d to give the || We buy seed 11 :o sell cheaper guarantee the |; ! '! I leat this year. son why you - < . ^ climate ana a r: iat. Why buy l\ , so why not j; give us your 2j gainst advancle following: i i O 45 nor hn ?! |/va vwi jr 3.25 per bu. ?; 2.00 per bu. I j 1.10 per bu. ?; ind other seed. S Company 1 anager. | STREE, S. C. $ kVYVVVWYVVVVV