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TELLS 101 HE IS RELIEVED l.IVK!^ DIS?KDKR AX!) CATA1 op Tin; .\i/<r, WiriCD OIT Da i. \itKS KKV. i\ \V. vaxci: in sitiXi r> sta ? a < isrpjjVa Presnkcr IpqtJ&io Here is another signed siazeiiYeht / telling 01" what the mow natural herb / xnedigine, Di-'.yn. has accomplished in a case of liver and k'ldnay eo^piairn combimd with catarrh of the head; "Dreeo-'hns done.me lots Ot good >a "a very short time. My co^npiainl was kidney and liver trouble and catarrh of the head. I can sky truth :.\'<'/tvd\y that Dreco i'-ts relieved me and I expect by continuing to use this medicine i shall be fully relieved and I do now recommend it to any and all who may .suffer with the above com plaints." ::' (Signed/ JifV. 1*. \V. Vance, Spartan burg, C Mr. Vance is one of the most prom inent colored, citizens of Sou^h Ca?o lir.a. Kb is pastor 'in a Methodist Episcopal church and a member o. jthe South Carolina Conference. ?fj-*i Dreco is a combination -of roots, aerbs? barks, berries noted /or their medicinal va'uc. it is the go;>d oid ? ^natural medicine that our"~ sturdy grandparents used in the days who?) \ doctors wore few and hard to reach. : Dreco has proven its value in ait eases where a safe and ..uro natura.] medicine is required. It is par ticularly useful in kidney, liver and _ S'oma^-h disorders, catarrh, rheurna .? tism. headaches. nerv6usrress' and Kindred ills. \ Dreco is'not an expensive medi eine. It is within the reach?of all?' poor a*td rica alike. !t is di?penst*d regula?-]y by good druggist*-? every where and is particularly recommend ed in> Su'mter by Sibert's I >rug Store, where' the Dreco man is making his headquarters and explaining th< medicine to all interested.?--Advt. HAKD XX&ES COMME'XTS. Acknowledges T;a?: he Voted ?oi Blease and Discusses Loyalty. ? Dark Corner, Sept. IS.? I will now ? make an attempt to write :? line o; two for the paper. My ha-ads have ;&V-fteen so I could not write. We are moving along very quietly in this eor her. Lots of open cotton fend few pickers to gather it. :' The primary elections passed oi. I very niceiy here. g? ;? We had lie v. Reynolds from Sal-. .. Church. Suinter, a few Sundays sigo. , <?oroe again and bring itioso deaeom fi- With you Bro. R. We are not afeaHd , ol^hem if vcu "are. _ Vc'e also iiad Rev ;'v;; Haynes'TTom- Columbia on the night of the Mivto preach for us. ? I am ^lad the eiectiQU is over; on* abuse and ridicule in the papers. A : f ha'-e beeh told that we will now have soiiSefhing South Carolina has never had: A Baptist governor. a* Cooper is a deacon in the First Bap tist church of Lau re as. Wolf is. also a Baptist, so I learn. Most all, or the greater portion, of the governors have been furnished by the Episcopal church of late; but any and all of them have suited me. jjfoakes no di: Xerenee wiiat denomination they bCr long to.. 1 And a great deakwas said aboui k>S"alty in the late campaign. Nov.*. Mr. ^Editor, whet is loyalty? A man; i think, should be loyal to his Suit* his country and himself. He should pay his vta:;<s to his State, an ! "b< ready to do whepever hi? State cal s. Which I have done; He shouftl b ?ready to respond when his eountiy calis?which, I have dear-. So I taia: .1 have been a loyal iniin/to my State and country; for widen i amr no; faulted; but when ii comes ;<> my self,-, if I don't sec fit to vote as seih? ?other man thla&s. I am accused of be lag disloyal. Xow, Mr. Editor, j have never let any a an dictate to or ^md never will; who I sh OA vote for. .* voted for Blcase because i wanted to, and I Could not have voted otherwise are! h;:\e been loyal to n<>>,?'.?'. WheJlM a candidate gpes*around tilling goo^ sound-minded men if they don-'t vote st? and so they ougiit or <i<: become dislo^il. I thing he ts oiT< ' in^ then: an insult, and I will say right h> re i 5 our ,px>iiti?-,jar?s ever expect to unit' ?the factions in iljis St! ?? thart; it v.:?; never-bo done by hard; harsh words. For. remember more llies ar4 caught with si'.:;.;;- ?!ian vinegar. 1 have just heard of the bushing ot "Mr. B la ?ding Ardis' aio house las: night. 1 .have not learned the par ticulars as yet Mr. Manning Geddings; a Con fed erate soldier, got his right ^shoulde! jerked out of joint b a ..:?:?*? runnin away wit!: hau a week or - rtgo at Broa < 1 w: ty's Siding. Mr. E. L. ;- : is. a ad ^jas beeKsl very si.-k f->;- son.- --^i*- with r::' tinal indigestion. }la?d Times. ? (If our old friend read Xt& '? ?' Poraai ie and I': 1: ?? : ? <-?. .. ..,.. ? his re;?arks a;>'-.! .1 ? -ide?? Wilson and sees nothing to '". an ? prefers to line up on ih-:: ..--.d ? J:is privilege to do so. \VW' tike him too much to quarrel whhk hbn. As Gen. X:rant -a^.J: '?The WaR'" is over. I>et us harte peace/') Don't V/ear Smoked Sfasse . Worry is a pair of sino?e<] glasses through which all the woi 'd lool ? son ber. The sunshine is as'JgoMen as ever, and the sky as blue. In:; througH those smoked ?pa- ??>?>?? ever^lhmg dreary. If some o? you would ? pocket your worries, and sse whai th? world really is !:::?'. it is pc^'y certnia that you would make ep^yw;*- -. ? id to do without smoked glasses in future. Srsraps Separated; To separate stamps thai hi re jbe coroo stuck together. Say a sin el oi thin paper owr them and iron v. :. hot iron. This will take th io apad ^ind the ^ue will still reiQaia. 31 BIM Sriia Men of War Affected by Pa thelio Soene, ?siy the P?.5s"nn of V.zile Cofnn cn Its j Way to the Cemetery, but for a Time It Heid Up Traffic in a Channel Port. !.' " There Trias some noise along the Jetty and yet more noise in the "wide and narrow streets of the town? 1 clanging street cars, whip-cracking : fiacres, yelling newsboys, honking taxis-, and soldiers and sailors tramp ing tho pavements. Noise enough and ; of the kind befitting a channel port ; in war time; but for a time at least; \' we heard the noise let down and the \ j bustle soured. i In a wide street of shops appeared < ; a white-haired' priest with a white: I crucifix held high before him. Be-! hind him was another priest reading ; from a book of prayer. Two laymen j came next, bearing a little white paint- j ed table with a little white coffin?a' I cheap board corns?resting on it. There j j was a canopy of plain white boards \ over the little coffin. There were a j few .white, blossoms on the canopy and .beside the eoiun a few liiies-of-the-vai-, ley^nly a few. : ' tTwc other laymen followed the cof ?nn-bearvts; All ihe men were bare-: headed. Three women?young wom en and young mothers to look at? followed the two men. One" of the | young women was In deep black. A group of little girls followed the young woman. ' Two very old women came last. No more than that, walking: through, a crowded street at two o'clock of a bright day! . , It.Was on us almost before we saw! it. Ken took off their hats as it pass- j ed; Worn^n blessed themselves. Some-i times men's lips m^-mured a short prayer, ahvays the1 -omen did. 3?he soldiers' and sailors, when they were French,, saluted nearly ahvays: the British sametimos. The officers, If anything, saluted more profoundly than the enlisted men and, when they did-net stop dead still, held a hand to/their caps for eight or ten paces in passing. Two soldiers were talking with two ; girls the. streets. One of the sol-1 diers .took Oix his cap. One of the: girls stopped talking to say a little; word of prayer. Both soldiers faced about and ail sour gazed in silence for long after; the little cortege had pass-; ed cm Then the first "-soldier put on/j his cap, all faced about and resumed; tSeir talk, but more slowly and not ! ojate so loudly as before, i An. English -Tommy was driving a! street car?a swearing Tommy that' yon could hear a block away. He came, on' the mourners from- behind. He was in a hurry, and by clanging his bell he could have crowded by. But; he hohl the car in check, nursing it so as not to f lighten the two old worn ess in the rear?until they came to a Wide square. Here there was room. He clanged his bell, not too loudly, turned on the juice, and hurried to j make up for lost time. ?cn are being killed by the mil lions over here, and other men who have been there?these very men on these streets?will tell you that they hardly turn their h?ads to see one j more killed. But a child is different? | James-1?. Connelly, in Collier's. One of the Women of France. I saw a very good-looking nurse in a I French hospital dressing a man's head which had been seared in a powder ex-; plosion. She chatted in good English as she prepared the wound for another application of the remedy. I 'did not know until later that she was the: Baroness de Rothschild, herself the founder of the hospital. When I dined at her chateau that'evening she told me that she worked with the wounded j every day from 7 a. m. to 1, *when she went home to luncheon; that she returned to her task at 4 and quit at 7. in the evening. It gave me a new sen-' safion to hear this beautiful woman in evening dress and jewels, whose wealth it would be difficult to estimate, telling i how she had become one of the work ing women of France. It was odd by the old standards, but e'est la guerre. ?Irving Batcheller in the New York. Independent. i Ail In the Point of View. Pavlowa says when her company ?r? j r:\ :d in Buenos Aires all the papers were full of their praises, except a lit tle new native paper, which published an article saying nothing eise than that "they were surprised that the men and women of the company were sc immoral." As Mrne. Pavlowa is very particular ! about her company th^t hurt a lot and she quickly made inquiries as to whyj so astounding a statement should have been made. j "Why," answered the editor, "the girls go about unveiled with short skirts on and the men often wear ncj hats 1"?Detroit Free Press. J~?-r.r3 New Military Airplane. giinmtic military airplane has jus! .:: ?iii?h ? at the nnlLtitry arsenal. Tt'?kyo. Ii v, -? Chieiiy designed by ih* late Li? iitviiant Sawada. who met a r?glc death at Tokorozawa. The ma has h en a year and a half un der construction, during which Vv.nt -. ast improvements has been made ir a er 1 navigation. This airplane h equipped with three ICO-horsepo-wei engines, and is capable, o* mnlfttain ing 56 miles an hour for six hoars continuous flight The machine wil carry live passenger&u vii'?i L/ L. C: i i v^a DilLlHrvrrtO ! Old-Timer Missourian Writes cf P* rlod W!\en Game Was Plentiful Where ftovw' Cities Stand. Samuel Colo, who came to central Missouri a boy, told these hunting stories r "When I was about twelve years old I started one tnorn'ng to hunt for game. My brothers had an old flint lock rifle; which I carried with me. It was a large and heavy gun, and was go heavy that I could not shoot it without using a rest. I came up the river, keeping near the bank, until I got to where the courthouse now stands in Eoonville. Under the trees, which then covered theground in the courthouse yard, I saw five deer stand ing together. I selected one of the finest looking ones'and fired. At the crack of my gun1 he fell; but when I went up to where he was, he jumped to his feet, and would have followed the other deer towards the river, had I not rushed up and caught hold of him, patting my arms' under his neck. He pawed me with his sharp hoofs and horned me?his hoofs making an ugly gash in my thigh and his horns strik ing me on the forehead. The marks of both hoofs and horns I carry with me today. I held the deer until my dog came up. I then loaded the gun and shot him again, this time killing him. This was the first deer I ever killed, and although it was a dangerous un-j dertaking, the experience only spurred me on to gather trophies of a similar character. "I killed five bears Just below the town?where Boonville now stands? and killed twenty-two bears 'In three days. I killed four elk in less than one hour. There were a lew buffaloes in the country when I came, but these were soon killed or driven further west ward. I never killed a buffalo, but caught five calves of a small herd near Pettis county line. I have seen as many as thirty deer at one sight at Prairie Lick. One day I went out upon the prairie. In. the spring of the year, and saw about twenty deer?all lying down except one; this one was a sen tinel for the herd. I approached with in three hundred yards of them and then took my handkerchief, which was a large red bandana, and fastened It .to a stick, and shook it a little above my head, when they all sprang to their feet and came toward me. A deer has much curiosity,^nd they were determined to find out, If they could, what the red handkerchief meant. When one of the largest of the number came within gunshot distance I shot and killed it I often repeated. the -handkerchief ruse with great success. I have killed and carried to the house three deer before breakfast."?From "Missourians of One Hundred Years Ago," by Walter B. Stevens. Bible Stops Bullet When that American Sunday school scholar gave his nickel for a Testa merit for a soldier in Europe he did not know that the Testament would j stop a bullet within an inch -of a French soldier's heart and save his1 life. But Eugene Dufalh that gallant French soldier whose life was saved by that Testament knows it, and he \ will always be grateful to some un-1 known American Sunday school boy, I or it may be a girl, who that Sunday i back in America did his bit toward the 1,200,000 Testaments and Gospels which have gone to Europe through/ the co-operation of the World's Sun- j day School association and the Amer ican and other Bible agencies. This'new Testament was given him at Dieulefit the first camp in Dau phine, by the French Bible society. On January 10, 1917, he was carrying It on his chest in the Schonholtz wood, before Altkirch (in Alsace), when a ! bullet from a machine gun glanced from a tree or rock, struck him on the I breast and entered the Testament German Soldier Slang. The first attention attracted by j Boche soldier siana was enlisted when' they dubbed the 420-mm. gun "Big Ber- | tha," says the BmMetin des ArmeesJ The machine gun is "stottertante" (the J aunt who stutters). They also say "the organ of death." "the colic can non." "the old chatterbox." When thei French machine guns are in action the j Boche in his dugout, exclaims: "There's a Franzman at his sewing I machine." T!:e casque Is the "tulip;" the knap-j sack, the "monkey;" epaulettes are! "soup plates;" noncora stripes are "cu cumber parings.? The various arms; have their sobriquets. The Infantry-j man is called the "sand hare;" the! chausseur is the "green frog;" the! trench digger is the "mole" or the "ditchnian;" the white cuirassier, the: "??< ur bag;" the uhlan, the "lamplight-! <v." and the green hussar&with yellow I trimmings are "the egg and spinach." j Food Consumption. -j' Studios of the monthly per capita consumption of wheat, meat, fat and sugar In the United States and in Eu ropean countries, show that, in gen eral, people in the United States eat th-i most per person. The German =rngar ration for 19.10-1917 was hardly more thr?i one-tenth of our consump tion and in meats we consumed almost! sit times as much an the Germans! were allowed. France is <?n a slightly-! more liberal di<-t than Germany, yet 'h;* French sugar rat inn is only 1.1 j pounds per month per person, as com pared with 7.4 pounds in the United States. England, though commonly considered Country of hearty eat ers, uses even less fat than France,and Is about midway between France and the United States as regard meat and iu^ar consumption, 1 Salem Home Demonstration Clul Meeting:. On Tuesday afternoon. Sept. l?tn at.4 o'clock the Salem Home Den: onstratiori club me: :;t the Salen School House. The subject of the meeting was "Food for Mother and Baby." and quit'- a number of mothr ers and girls attended the meeting.: Dr. Sophia Brunson kindly eon| sented to lecture to tin- mothers mi this occasion and ver> ably and t'oree fully discussed the diet, clothes, <?:; ??reise and general welfare of tie mother. The talk was plain and nori technical and proved to be very in structive and interesting to the club members. Following Dr. Branson's lecture Miss Alice Martin talked on rh<^ care and feeding of infants, discussing nat ural and artificial feeding, giving the advantages of tin1 former ami the proeautions to be taken in both meth ods. The demonstration consisted in modifying and pasteurizing a day's nourishment for a. four months obi infant. After an open discussion on tie subject, the club adjourned to meet agaft) on the 2nd Tuesday afternoon m October. Meeting of PJcasant Grove Home ? Demonstration Club. The hewly organized Pleasant Grove Home Demonstration club met on Thursday afternoon, Sept. 12th at the home of Mrs. W. \V. Cunning ham. The subject for lh<> afternoon was the home uses of Muscadine grapes. Grape mincemeat was made by the ..Home Demonstration Agent. Miss Alice Martin. Mrs. Cumiingham. -who is a very wide-awalce leader in the ooaimun ity. is very much interested in the work and very generously offered the use of her kitchen and the materials for the demonstration. New York. Sept IS.?A;.committee or prominent Swedish and German Frms has been formed in Berlin tor the purpose of organizing a. Genr.an Sw.edisis econornie, association, says a Berlin despatch in the Cologne Ga zette. The object is to bring together a1! German'and Swedish firms enter !lining close mutual economic rela tions. . Ancient "Cathay." Cathay was an old name of China by which that country was known to Eu ropeans during the middle ag^s. The British Encyclopedia says: "Cathay is divided from Khitai. the name which was properly that of the kiugdom es tablished by the Khitan conquer ors in - the northern provinces of Chine about A. I).- 007 and was sub sequently applied to the whole of China." Khitai is still the Kussian name for China. ^ v i . _ ; j A Word for the Rattler. Thejpfference between a tattler and a TaTftj^Ts' that the snake gives the other fellow a chance and the sneak won't. ?????????HiMHMMananMi ex Theatre Monday, Sept. 23 ?Featuring? THEDA BARA The premier siren of the screen portrays the passion of Egypt's vampire queen. \ ! The high cost of kissing the modern Cleopatra is cheap com pared with the price Caesar paid. The highest, priced production ever screened. Cost over one million doiars ,to produce. Same as the play. Shown for nearly one year in New York, at one to two dollars :i ao-.a. Worth coming- miles to see. Be Sure and See Cleopatra LIEUT. PUTX?>J DEAD. With Americans in Lorraine, Sept. S U*.?First Lieut. David E. Putnam, of ; Jvewton, Mass:, America's ace of aces j whs killed late yesterday while pa trolling along the American lines. He j was Hying with Lieut. Robertson, of; 'Fort Smith, Ark., when suddenly he' was attacked by seven German ma- ; chines. Putnam was shot through j the heart and his machine glided1 within the American lines. I la good Observations. Pome years ago one ginnery did thel Work of our community. Now two j 'with far better outfits can not.. That| is development. There is more cot ton made on forty r.cres than was then made on the er tire plantation* j (Dinkins). And this is irue of'nicst j of the land around here. What is i true of this community is true ofi many others in Sumter county. We know iand that was considered! worthless. Would not sprout cow peas j as tbe saying goes, that now produces i more than a bale1 per acre. And the end is not yet. The cotton there is open in tbe Gelds because it opened early, fast, and because of the scarcity of labor. Don't talk of a gale. Yet it is not too late for one. We dined with .Mr. Charles San-j ders Sunday and of course he has ? tine crop. An enterprising, intelli gent farmer with the fine body of i iand that is his, such crops as he j grows are not surprising. He is noti alor>e there, for his neighbors can boast of fine crops too. God is bless ing us and so helping us to Win the war. Don't you believe it? Are you asking for his blessing as the presi dent requested? Mrs. Sanders was in Columbia. They have four boys in the service. No slackers here. None of them have taken a job to keep out of the war: A. H. Sanders beats any one we know catching cooters. "We were at Hagocd the other day and he had barrels of them which he oteimed to have caught with hook and line. G?s is a splendid fiserman. Can't the Germans lie, though? What will they say as to who began the war since the latest disclosures. They need to learn how to withdraw without losing so many men. Foch a strategist? Yes, he is. We kept asking during the lull of the last Ger man drive, "Why djbn't he shew some of his strategy? When, bless your life, he was showing it by keeping still till the proper moment to move when forthwith results began to show. How we delight to sit and read and chuckle. It seems we have done more of the last lately than in all our life before. 3?he news can't come fast enough for us. And yet there are a few Cerman sympathizers sneaking around. They would not admit it now for all the world, but occasionally some expres sion will leak out that betrays the., wolf's ears. "Hagood."' 1 :-.-n. i-''"|'t|-|||^1^|M|1|j|- WB1wrf^WTnn?? 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