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^ ?\w> Of Um> pud<ll?! We Make Good Wo do not claim to W? a big duck. and yet we are too old In tho meat buttlne?* to bo at y led a duckling! Wo are therefore, jusi it medium alied duck in a medium alted puddle! /daklug a big uolae about our war?a. tJ a big notao about our warea. He good, come here for good meata and we will make good with the r ?x>4>t ' 1 ? -J : ? ? Campbell Bros. r*r;- ?; ; ; . . Worses and Mules We have just received a car load of fine HORSES and MULES and want you to call and see them W. C. MOORE I, ; ..-L-C-v -v.- : SEL-1? ? ( BUY Do You Want to \ loan " borrow 1 May Help You. LAURENS T. MILLS, Yl w CAMDEN, S. C. rrs ' ' ? fRtCTPROOF CMBAGE PWn8?^ ' THE OHHU.N OF l\\ WNHllOl'H 1 Tlu7 Wtw htuiutr<| |u Italy by Ht, ih?ru#nliuo of Kieua. The legacy of 4,000 pounds re cently bequethfA. by tho Marquis do Uuurry (or the redemption of ob jecta pledged by the poor at the I'aria pawnbroking cstabliahiuent* l? uu uct of cburlt> of a kind by no mwuitH uncommon In France, and out) which In worthy of tho re ligious origin of the Mont-dcl'lete. When M. BantoaDumont the pio tiM^r of muchanical Hlight, won tho. M. Deutsch d? lu Meurthortie prise of 4,000 pound*, be gave half the amount for a purpoae nlmllar to that t<j which tlu? Mai n nl. i de Guer *JF'? *lega<> luiM juHt been devoted, only stipulating that the money should be used for the redemption Of articloa of actual neceaBlty, such as wearing apparel and bedclothes. In France, the atate pawn offices and every establishment of the kind is utate property in France still retain their title of Mont-de piete, or Mount of Blety, although it is doubtful if the general public pauses today to think how they ori ginated. One of. the symbols of Bt. Bernar dine of Siena, the founder of puwn ahops, 1h a green hill composed of three mounds, with either a croas or a standard bearing an image of the dead Christ on the mound for which tho remaining two fbrms, aw it were, are a pedeatal. Thb Hal ting call this Image l'ieta. lu every large city in which ho gave a aermon Bt. Bernardino mount ? ??I a Mount of l'iety, or society for lending small auma to the very poor on thrlfting pledgets. Before hi? death, branch societies hud Bpread all over Italy, and he saw the ayatem adopted In France aa well, The honor of founding a pawn office ia Hah} to havo been ahared with Bt. Bernardino of Blenu, by another monk of the aamo name Blessed Bornardlnee of Feltri, In deed, HOino wrltera aeem to place him first in the field. Mention is made of him as preaching in the year 14J48 in the t'huroh of Banta Croce at Florence on ih? necessity of having a Mont-de-I'iota in that . town. The word pawn 1h derived from the French term pun, meaning ft pledge and there 1b probably fiome connection between the three gol den balls qsed as a pawnbroker'** algn In England and the three mounds of St. Bernardino of Siena. Another explanation of the English sign, however, is often given. This 1b that the custom of using three goldeii balls for the purpoHe allud ed to, can be traced to a wealthy Italian banker who was a member of the princely house of Medical and had three golden pills In 1i1h eoat-of-armu. As the reputation of the Italian bankers grew, the bank ers of other lands, England among them, alfeo assumed the sign ot three golden pills. Today the national flag floating from the doorway and the words Mont-de-Plete placed above the en trance, albno indicate the pawn of fice in Franco, but something of tho Charitable scheme of its holy foun der is, still evident In tho system followed by the administration. For instance, if an object has been in pledge for twenty years and the" interest has been paid regularly, at the expiration or that period it is returned to the owner free of all cost. If a depositor falls to redeem a pledge or pay the In-teMfet it is sold at tho expiration of fourteen months from the date of the pledging, but oven tl\en ho has three years in which? Hi the pledge has been sold for more than the sum originally lent on it? he can claim whatever was paid in excess by the purchaser. If no such claims is made the mon ey is given to the Assistance P.Ub lique, a charitable institution, for the relief of the poor.< ? Ave Maria. 4 'PltOI 11BITION ' ? IN TENNESSEE}. Former Camden Boy Gets in and Writo? of Politics. Publishers The Chronicle: Since 1 have been in Nashville I have made it a point to study the political situation of Tennessee and compare it with that of . Soilth Carolina. My reason for doing this was mainly to satisfy myselt that the declaration of some of my friends "Under Gov. Blease, South Carolina politics are the rottenest in the Union" is false. After much deliberation, consid eration >and investigation, I am NEW CROP Everything for the Spring Garden. Guaranteed to germinate by T. W. Wood & Sons. W.HZemp Drug Store. Phone 30. proud to bo iible to say that the po litical aUualiott la Houth Carolina is a Heavenly dream compared tu that of Teuaeseee L . The legislature is now in t??Ht,lon. the election of a I!. N Henatyr and the liquor question are tho ^Impor tant subject* of debate. ihel>iMH ocraMo nominee, lion, "limn" Pat terson. huu wlth-drawn from (he race, leaving the ItepubllcauH, Hull Mposeii, and FllHoolitt to fight Jt. out. No uiiiitt?t* how bitter the pill the people will have 'to ?wallow It without * chauce to way who Hhall b? their Senator. "A llovorument by a chosen few." Aa we ull know, TenueBHeo la HUppoaed io Im a prohibition state, with Hit* Excellency, Gov. lieu W. Hooper, (Republican,) a? the pro hibition leader. Whether ho haa "made good" hid promltio to the people to enforce the prohibition laM^f will quote from "The Demo crat:" "TenneB?ce has 6,70 4 licensed re U|| dealer# In liquor. Before tbl Htate wan bleaBod with prohibition they numbered only 2,008 and yet ?the advocate* of a policy which inul tlpllti these dsalors call tbdr ?p ponentn cmiBbarles of the rum pow er." What nay ye, friendu, hae prohi bition proven the beet solution of the liquor question in Tennessee? For fatter or worae, a Hepubllcan Governor, a few Republican And "Bore Head" Democrat Legislators came to Nuahvllle passed thin law, called the people together and said unto them, "Wo have given you a great biennis Prohibition- go yo to all corners of your State all(l reap the rich bloBBiiigH from our gift." The people wont forth and reaped more liquor, worse liquor. The "Hill Top IiOrds" , have also done some reaping- -Graft. Only a few daya ago 1 had occa sion to call on a wnolesale liquor dealer, and 1 asked him if ho had any fear of tho prohibition law be ing enforced, ho laughed and' said: "Why, Sonny, l luidn't thought abou It, but they may glvo us somo trouble ten yearn from now, if they last that long." If Tennessee had n few "Simon Puree," who would prrtctlco aa well as preach prohibition, ehe might some day realize a little good, but. fto long as the law la used for the purpose of Hpllttlng tho Democratic party and not for tho good of the people as a whole, I fall to see wherein TennoHBoe can ever realize any good results from having tho prohibition law on the statute books Tho question 1b, can our five-thous and "Simon 1'ureB" handle the "Prohibition Law" In South Caro lina with more succobb than tho *4H111 Top Lords" of TennesBee have done? Personally, I believe they can, but i* there not Hanger In forc tQfc one man to take anothora rnedi jPlfli&H. v;:. I have boon quite fortunate i? having Mr. Chis, O. Taylor, a law yet, an my friend sinco I have been in Nffgtivltte; III 1i1h "Summing up" of the clown fall of the 'Democratic party In Tennessee he, and all the "Regulars'' start afe the point where the Legislature under Iloopcr, abol' iBhed the "Four mile law" and in its stead forced the prohlbtlon law on the people. [ I, for oner am convinced that our dear beloved Hlster stato", Tennessee, can go South Carolina one bettof "when ii comes to rotten politics, and the only way for us to keep the dear old party intact in. South Carolina is to profit by Tennes see's mistake and support the ad ministration, to a man. Wilbur W. Rolling. Nashville, Teton., Jan. 19, 1913. I ? ? laitCJKST HHI1* IN WORIiI>. The lmperator to Sail for New York on May 7tl?, Tim Hanburg-American Compa ny's new liner Imperator will sail on May 7 on her maiden voyage to N cvr York. The Imporato? Is the largo&t ship in the" world. She Irf an 11-story floating palace 919 feet long, with engines of 80,000 horse power. Her displacement is 50,000 tons and she* can accommodate" 5,000 passengers. 1 Among other luxuries the imper dtor Is fitted with three electric ele vators, a winter garden, Bummqr houses, a theatre, a gymnasium; a Kit z restaurant, swimming baths, a ballroom, telephone and a jiottage cafe. The swimming bath Is the copy of one unearthed at Pompeii, with mosiac pavements that are re productions of thOBe discovered at Treves. - The first-class dining sa- 1 loon is in the Louis XVI style, it is 300 feet long. i Weird Story of the Wires. That is ft weird story that u cor respondent^ has put on the wires from Tjarayette, Ind., to the "Eastern" papers. As a narrative runs, Evans, Jones, who is beginning to recovor from a cough that has made his life miserable for the past two yeare, says the Qause was nothing less than a lizard three inches loug. Jones declared that he brought up1 tho reptile while out driving lh? other day. Ho had a paroxysm of coughing on the road. At the end of it h9 chofced.he said, and reached down his throat for relief. He seiz ed the lizard and drew it to the light of day. The lizard seemed to bo as happy as Jones to dissolve partnership and was wriggling a way as faat as it could, when Jones decided he would capture it and Bhow it to his doctor, Edgar Allen. The doctor dropped the wriggler In alcohol. - Jones got ' the doctor's theory, which was that Jones must have be^ > drinking at a well or spring ar . taken a lizard's egg Into his stomach. The grateful warmth hatched the lizard. The agony of coughing that Jones endured Is ascribed to tho frantic effort* of the lizard to liberate It self. ? 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