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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE PuUiihrnl JE v?ry Friday *l*rr Aimuin fljPO W. li. McDowell, . . . . l*ro|irietor. 1 1, U, Ml??, > I', A. MbOowell, , , > Publish**#. tC, S. McDowell, . . ) EaUiW u imhJ cUm Mil Mtl?i *1 iIm P??<?IIk? *1 CmUm, 9?atk CtriliH. y llou V JW...,.| HI. - 'Phone 29 ( Miii<i?n, s. <?., .iiii) n, itfifl. Hon. D. E. Flnley Matt hitf an nouncement/in this weeks Chronicle askijig re-el?cUon to Congress from rttrin district. A clean-up week for Camden is a move in the right direction. Nothing adds more to the health and beauty of a town than attract ive Haiiltary premises a/id it Ih hop ed that all property owners will en ter -the content. The Chronicle in in receipt of a letter from Hon. Glenn W. Kags .dale, candidate for Con grew, at the clone of which he says: "Please straighten the type In your humbl? Kervantn name, aw it appear* in an nouncement card. It might suggest to the mind of Home uncharitable fellow, tint? there was something crooked about Kitgsdale. which Is really not the case." Head the ads lit The Chronicle and trade with the merchant who advertlhCH. Publicity * in the ?iin Hhine that brightens up a bargain and makes a purchase twice aH val uable, An article tliat Ih not worth the newspsper apace to put It be fore the public Ih not worth your iuoih^ and time to look at it much lews to buy. Huy that which Ik up to-date; that which everybody Ih acquainted with, and that which in well aired by the nun beam* of pub licity. Trade witli our advert Isers. The baHobali fans of Greenville were treated to Home real baseball FVlday afternoon when a team from the Greenville Dally Js'owk met a tea in from the Dally Piedmont. It seem* that Charlie McJunkin wan responsible for the defeat of the Piedmont team, for at the end of the game he wan handed the fol lowing release: "Vou are hereby given your releane an a player on The Piedmont team. You run like a one-leggej man on banana peel ings. couldn't hit a hIow moving bal loon and couldn't stop a watermelon rolling up bill. Vou throw like a woman." NO P.W IN ,-\l?V 'KKTlSlXfi. Don't advertise if you believe you are wasting money. Let your com petitor waste his money on adver tising, and perhaps in this way you 'll soon put him out of business. Fix Ills clock work for him. Just stand back and laugh at him when you sev him squandering his money , for printers' ink Once there was a boy named John w.e think his la.st name was Wanamaker anyhow his name was John, with some sort of a maker attached to his last name He owned f>on yards of cali co three lad's of jeans and a half do/a ii pairs of hoots. He called I 'hi.v a d'"> goods store through x I Philadelphia paper, and offered to sell a paii ill socks for 'M cents. I The don't -bH leve-iu -a.d \ ert ising met' 1 chains laughed Voting .John spent j *?;r. with I li?* Philadelphia 1 .I'd gel* to' advertise just one time. and hail j h'Vs than $ 1 an wort h of goods. lie was cauiionedb y those merchants who knew it didn't pay. It was through sympatln that they gave him advice. Hu: John didnt listen to them and went and blew his] money in foolishly, and toijav poor J John sets his misdoings- he has so! tmu.\ large dry goods stores he can j hardly- find titne to study his Sun-' day school le^on K.vhanuc j Many Fish Were Blind. More than 17,l>00 yellowtall were caught by Japanese fishermen at the' long wharf recently This is the larg est catch for one day's fishing trver re corded in I he hay district. Among the finny specimti.s were several deep sea tish, which, when brought to the sur face, were found to \k> totally blind.?"! lx>s Angeles Tribune. M \< ; I SI K \'l IS Si M>IO\S S' ; ' ? ( ?! South t *;i red i :i;i . ('ounfy of Kershaw. Iii the Magistrate Court. M Barnch Plaintiff. \ u a i 1 1 s t \\ . <> Ft , I )efeiida n I Summons. To the Sheriit of Kershaw County; or anv l.a? fill Constable: Complaint having been made un to uic by the above named plaintiff against the above named defendant, that t lie defendant. \V () Foss is indebted to tie plaintiff in tlie sum of Ninety-one Doll.irs <$!'l t?i? i on account of cash advanced to him by the plaintiff on the L'!?th day of May. 1 ?? 1 L' . which is past due and owing and unpaid, as more fully appears by the affidavit hereto at tached, and that the said defendant, W. O. Foss is a non-resident of the state of South Carolina, and is at tempting to receive his property within this County and State front the same for the purpose of defraud ing the said plaintiff. You are hereby commanded to summon the said defendant before me to answer the said complaint on the 21st day after the service here of, in my office Camden, S. at 12 M.. or Judgment will be given against him by default. . ? Given u ader my hand and seal, this 4th day of June, 1912. H. M. Flncher, -r ? ^ ? __ Maglatrat^. _ , -{June 28, 1912 ? 6t. sr< < kss in TRVCKIKO. * <irov?tti of ln<luvtrjr In C'h?rlt*t?ii < '<?Ulll > . forty-one year# ago W. C. UeXJt: ty and F. IV. Towles begun truck farming in Charleston county, South Carolina, ut Martins Point. They planted half uu tf^re In cabbage and 8 or 10 ucres In potatoes. Krom that pioneer effort the trucking In dustry In the county has developed until today 14, ^00 acres of land are In cultivation, which, It lt> estimat ed will thin year yield $2,662,600 worth of crops, netting the growers $1,302,500. In a carefully prepared study of the industry published in the N'ewn and Courier, l>. O, Hpen cer estimates that this year 6,000 acres have been planted In cabbage, yielding $800,000, an average Of $ 1 60 an acree; 4.000 acres in pota toes, yielding $700,000, an average of $175; 2,000 acres in cucninbers, yielding $600,000, an average of $300; 2,o0Q acres In beans, yielding $312,000, an average of $ 1 5 ?> , and I,ooo acres in asparagus, lettuce, tu nips, heels, radishes, etc., yielding $150,000, or an average of $160 un acre. In the early days commission men of Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York, who advanced money to the truckers, practically controlled the distribution of the crops, but in the past six or seven years a num ber of brokers' firms have been es tablished In Charleston, with the result h of a fwr wider distribution of the (Tops, and the readiness of local bankers to supply any funds for the growing that may be needed The Atlantic Coast Id no and South ern Hallway furnish the facilities fo shipments, which at the height of the Heasoii aggregate from 76 to 100 cars a day, and which this year will amount to 4,000 carloads of cabbage, 1,000 of potatoes, 800 of cucumbers, Goo of beans, and 600 of miscellaneous vegetables. An attractive feature of this in dustry In th?? neighborhood of Char leston is that the truck cropH are I followed, Without additional fertili zation, by second crops and some times by third ones, cabbage by corn, ami potatoes by cotton, hay turnips, etc., and one development of cabbage raising, which claims N. II. Mlitch aq$lts king, Is the raising <>r cabbage plants, which are sent for setting out to .'17 States, as far west an Iowa and Idaho and as far north as Michigan and Massachu setts. This year from 346 acres I 45,000,000 plants of the kind were sold. It is not surprising that the val ue of these trucking lands have In creased under cultivation from $26 to' $100 and $200 an acre. One of the successful growers paid $7,000 for 209 acres of land less than 30 years ago which now would cost more than $2 50 an acre, and anoth er bought 4 06 acres of land in 18 96 for $1,150 which is now worth $50,000 or $60,000. The second generation of truckers in this region have now entered the field, which ban been created through the ap plication of hard work and common sense to a naturally productive soil, and their work has been reinforced by liberal use of fertilizers. The field x is by no means exhausted. There Is still room upon unculti vated land for as many growers as are already at work, and at many other points In J he South there is -opportunity in the industry, which is now bringing at least $100,000, ? KMi annually to that section. ? Man ufacturers Record. fundamental Error. We suffer, in teaching, from th? ni*nns being exalted and the end for gotten. \\ OKI)l\.\\< b) To Raise Supplies CoY Tin* City of Camden, s. C? for Year IK* it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Camden, S. and by the authority of the same Hut: the following taxes be, and tin* same are hereby levied for the- current year from the 1st day of January. 1 1* 1 ^ . to the 31st day of December. 11)11'. Sec. 1. A tax of 1 L' mills on each and every dollar of real and person al property within the corporate li mits oi ill" Cit\ of Camden, S. C., on i lie J st day of January, lit 12. Sec. li. That all able bodied male person-, between the ages of twen ty-one and fifty-five years, residing within the corporate limits of the City of Camden. S. ('., not exempt from road duty under the laws of the State, shall work the streets, ways and bridges under the direc tion of such overseers as may be appointed foV such, a space of time not exceeding six (Hi days in one year. Provided, that at the time of receiving the notice any person tna\ pay to the person giving such notice three ($3.nni dollars Com mutation. which shall be received in lieu of 'he work, and that person refusing to ^-ork on said streets or to pa\ said Commutation, shall be fined no: less fnan five ($f>.00) dol lars nor more than ten ($10.00) ?.ollar> or be imprisoned not less than ten (ln? days nor more than twenty ?( L'o i days, in the discretion of the Cit\ Recorder. Sec. The tax books for the col lection of City taxes will be open ed in Council Chamber, Camden, S. C\. on the 15th day of July, and remain open each day except Sun days, from }* a. m., to 1:30 p. m., and from " p. m. to 4 p. in., un til Saturday, August 3rd inclusive, after which time the penalty will be attached to all delinquents. Ratified by the Mayor and Alder men of the City of Camden, S. O., in Council assembled this 1st day of July. A. O.. 1912. S. F. Brasington, Mayor. Attest: G. (}. Alexander, Clerk. More Than That In JJfs. It would be a bad day (or humanity If a man's debt to his fellow-men should come to be calculated and paid -.oluiy in rates and taxes. I - A< T.|,M. NT KX F.IU I Hfc. "i*": . ' 1 1 H?tajmi||g. *st aji All Vtoonfl Hntllh rul |? HhiiI t4? HtmI. No Intelligent or sensible , ?on, after giving (Bf TubJect ? se rious thought, can offer a *ood rea son whya knowledge of the art of swimming whould not be made part of the education of every boy and girl at tending school, for. |f such were the cane we would aoon have a grown-up community of better J< veloped people. 'l'here could never be a better thing done for the boys and girls of ? he grammar. schools of the state than to have It arranged so they c|>uld take one or two lessons In swimming every week, huy? The Philadelphia ledger. It would not coat the city more than a feu dol lara a month to furnish an Inst rue tor for the grammar schools, and I think the matter should be taken up for the benefit of the school chil dren. Ah a mean* of recreation and for bodily development, Hwiinming is ex orclse par excellent, there being no other form of exercise that tend* to more develop the symmetry of the body or add more health and ,pleaHure, when properly indulged in. No one known when he or she may be called upon for a practical test of their knowledge 6f the art of natation, and when such emer gency arises a knowledge of swim mlng Ih not only needed, but there lar a grea* risk pt Ioh# of life In a majority of inutanceH where there is a lack of knowledge of this useful accomplishment. it Ih obvlouH, therefore, thuj in srtuction in swimming and life hav ing should he made a i>art of the curriculum of all educational instl* tutionB. While those now unacquainted with the art nhould at once be taught, In order that they may 1101 only take care ~of themselves i 11 timeH of accident, but lend assist- 1 ance to others who may be in dis tress. We occasionally hear the Htat e ment made that good swimmers are frequently drowned, but If you will took? up a few drowning cases you will nee that nine out of every 10,. either could not swim well or were just learning. These are the ones that get into trouble, as they alwayw take more chances than a person who ban had lots of exper ience, and the consequence is they are drowned.* Many of these so- called., good Swimmers are really not proficient at all In the sense of being able to take care of themselveB under all conditions and x usually lose their Uvea in some foolhardy attempt that a mope competent person would not think of trying. But how shall we accomplish the object of a general instruction- in swimming in our country as a part of the education of the youth of the land? Fortunately -the remedy Is simple. The art of swimming Is easily acquired and If we will build proper swimming baths in connection with every school house, or as many such separate and properly' equip ped baths as will meet with domancji and make it a mattre of compulsory education along with reading, welt ing arithmetic and other studies, an provide competent instructors to car ry on the work, the knowledge ot' ! this valuable art will soon become' as common as the art of walking or | talking, and almost as universallv j acquired. Where possible, a swimming pooi scientifically built and maintained j in strict hNgienic condition by the exercise of constant care, should be provided in all school buildings. Where this is impossible from the character of the building or from want of room, bath houses should be erected for the common use of a number of schools and instructors provided to teach the children. With proper caVe the swimmnig pool- can be made a valuable adjunct of the school house, and its use will go far to insure health, while its beneficial results in the physical de velopment of the body will he cor respondingly shown in the increased development , of the mind. Let swimming, therefore .become as much i r part of the studies of the public schools as reading, writ ing and arithmetic. Too much can not be written in favor of swimming. So man\ illus trations can be given of the benefi cial results of practice at this form of recreation and branch of sport that a recital of then: would become tiresome. Suffice it t o sa\. and I say it without fear of contradic tion, th.it there Is no other form of exercise that tends to a more uni form development of -the entire body and brings more muscles into play, including the development of the heart and lungs, than swimming. Besides, the practice at swimming has the effect of toning up, invig orating and quickening the entire muscular circulation ami energy, rendering the moving masses pliant, suple and responsive, as *w imtnlng muscles are usually long and quick of action and not hard, bunchy, or knotty, heavy muscles. There are also other species of physical exercise tha4 are lopsided in their tendencies. Baseball, beau tiful game as it is, tends rather to develop tha-t side ot the bodv which the person most uses. Lawn ten nis Is a capital sport. 1 can tell a lawn tennis player general lv when he is stripped before they put the tape on him. But what are good ex ercises for all round development? Running, if not ddne4 to exoess; wrestling, if not done to excess. But the exercise that beats them all for nil round development and general physical benefit is swim ming. While It is not always convenient to. swim for exercise and develop ment In the summer time. In open water, at the inland towns there Is no reason in the world that the chtl dren and adults of Los Angeles and other towns that are near the ocean should not take advantage of tfalf chance and do all the swimming in the ocean. ?_ A plunge in the open water, fol lowed by a sun bath, is one of the fluest ibl ngs tor tuutofg up the nerves and iuvigoratlug the whole .system. The reaction that follow* such a hath quicken* and increases the circulation aud the whole body Iw thereby strengthened eud toiii.. n? .1 against colds and suddenness of changes. Kvery swimmer will tell you that when the temperature its not too low they can swim four timet* as far in open water with lew exertion than in an indoor pool. This is due to the purer air and general invigorating surroundlugs which make the exercise a greater pleasure under these conditions. You can take , any swimmer out of a hot plunge and put him In the tfurf and he will do just twice as much Hwimming in the surf than he would in a plunge. For Sale. Light six cylinder OLDSMOB1LE, fully equipped, run about lix thousand mile*, cost $5,300 with specie! five passenger body. Will ??!) to quick buyer, $2,000. Williem Bloomfield, 495 Spring Street, Atlanta, Ga. AS OIUHJfANCK DtniM-tng the Ile?ult of mii Klectlon Oil ll??- Vuewtiotl of iNftuillK Jttontl* uf the City of < ?hmI?*u for tlic hiqHHr of KiliiMliiMlf ItrtW it ml Idjcht limit In Km Id City. State of South Carolina, County of Kerahaw, City CoMMiti of Camden, , lie It ordained by the City Coun cil of Camden, South Carolina, and by authority of aauie, that the1 election held in tht> City of Camdeu, on Tuesday, the 11th day of June, 1912, on the question of laauing! coupon bond* . of the City of Cam den. S, for the umouut of Oue Hundred Thousand Dollara ($lpo, UOO.OO) bearing interest at the rate of five per cent per annum, paya ble aeml-ann ually, in any legal ten der of the United Staten, forty (40) yearn after date, with the privilege of redemption after twen ty (20) year* from date, for the purpoue of establishment and own ership by the City of Camden of a water worka plant uuu plant, lor the u?e o! ujT a ml iti cUltena, was dmy resulted In ?ald bona u. curried, a majority uf voting at aald vWa Bald Issue of bonda. Be it further reaoWad ?fl Uxa tame day, Tuiadaji J day of Juue, 1*12, ih? eUtSiJ In the aatd City of Cam, the election of a Hoard pf aloner* of Public Work* In the following three < ' of Camden being duly aatd Hoard of Commit* Public Work*: W. ?i. 4^ J. l)unn and Henry 8u Ratified In Couucll thl* 17 tli day of Juue, ? 8. F, Braxlugton Attest; (1. O. Alexander. Advantage of Truth. "When one ha* 110 design \ apeak the plain truth, h? m*,, great deal In a very narrow. , ?Steele. Real Estate The farming lands in Lee County have long been recognized as the best in the State, and sell readily for $30.00 per acre. Y ' ' vv-r " . . .. . ' . _ . We offer for quick sale two tracts at Smithville ? one containing " 163 acres and one 10 acres at a price far below the $30.00 mark. Both tracts are ideally located, being on the public road, within a few miles of the railroad and having every advantage of the average town. 'Phone 29, or write us for , ~ ' further information. belk & Mcdowell Real Estate CAMDEN, S. C. LANCASTER, S. C: Real Estate The Most Wonderful and Complete Machine for Stump Pulling on the No farmer can afford to be without it. Several have, already been sold 'n ^ shaw county, including one now in use by the county. Price very reasonab* Will be glad to demonstrate this wonderful machine to any one wishing chase. Guaranteed for three years to work every day. Mr. Gilliam Raley, of Butt bought one last fall and he says he would not be without it for $500.00. Let IB* you one and rid your farity of all stumps. :* ' . - L. C. SHAW, Sole Agent for Kershaw Counl