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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE Publiilxd E*tfjr Frid*jr ?Vr Annum , . . fl.OO II If. S lie* / k, V M< l>??eU, . . j llOO S. ItroM.l *1. . 'I'liitur 'M i'njiulcu, h. i\f %U|<. ^4, IUM. Now thai Ih* officer* have <Jone th*#r in i'i in ? mu4 arre*-* i ng the violatem of the diapenitary law in an d around thi# < it > . || r*!9AtOI to be K*}h it the jurle* wiil do 'heir and <;OMviVr.l (Ik-m* Whatever may ?>e ?he public* Jjkt and (lihJiki-H to Mayor l{ra*mgton ?' administration, when it r-ooiw to- ?:n? forcing t'J?? taw again*' the of whiskey in rainden,. !hv> Uv*; ?d hand jt to him he "fo iirAay* on th? JqU 'I'IiIh \v t he season when all mer chants are receiving 'heir fall and wlrii.tr kooi!h, and there is no iwu.'-t. way of let ting the trading bubli< know what you have for them than b> y*lng the 'oluiiiiib of Tliw Chron icle. Plant an ad with us and watch result*. I'li*- tiJ k barbecue and liv'e *tock brwd^rh" rally scheduled for Wed-1 newday proved a suceesa in ?very particular. The attendance was larg* I ii'li 1 ?y iai t^UiHrf-n fl'Htt ?i*-HI?by I pot ma; speeches were good and the dinner excellent. Inevery wh> it was a great gathering and great en thusiasm wan shown, - Hon Joshua W Ashley, member of the 'house 0/ repre?eutativeK from Anderson county, Hii.ff?*red n nf rokc of para)ybi.? at hit| home near itoi.ea ' l'ath last Friday morning, and al ? ho for a fi.nn* it wan believed that the attack would prove fatal; signs of recovery b?*ga?l ><t. develop ^ulur day and now it Is* foel jeVedl that li?t will get . oi> his f cm* t aain .I W. Asfoiey 'iff tin* political "hoHls"'. Of Anderson cou.nty. having become j>?' r sonally interested in politics more than l years ago He has M'i'vi'd I!* years ill t he . legislat ure, all of hi# services having I >????? i ? ? < <>n,t imioiii> ?s It h t !)<.' jon of <m*> tf-rin he dtoppiMi out , , hsi>.5ri.g run'., cud t'ccti d?.*f?}?t|sd J??r ; In hi ti i ,a *; r? i h? year, llavo you ever thought lioy,- ?> i.oi oti^hl*. f' pri -i? ii t ,i t i v<_. ^ i.e vi'..-- paper Is of IIB llortlf .K/Wll'.' M'-W.-pa Jj?'T isr.Mjif oiili hotue i iiHt it iM ???f> t fial trrij n?*js arouij.j [it dlM.aii! ? i ? i ?-*-? . iiuii)! and M r<"*t b cannot ,h<* ;,<?< -n imi i< Ofli* . -V ih it'.w a p I . ? ' : . The MCWH pa per o t.-b ;th far as' t I'm* niails. Th? 'u>ii)?* newspaper rui n is1t<*h a . iimtiiis by which distant p?*oph* gain an , idea of the; pi. to* ss lit -re it i> publish ed. If ;i .new'spap?*r tw-vs t-\ and '.lean typ<>Kf';iphi?\'il!N . and has lit??*r al advfrrisMig, ? v?r> tuaii from l.oh Angeb'H t?> t h?* Atlantic who sec s i' ^?'t?- an idea (hat lown is alive. Peo ple have no idea how !it*w?paper? circulate away from their home town says th<* Menden. K'o | Journal. Kv- ?; ??ry putui?hcr has a cnnsideralde 1 1 .-if '? or suhscrl t>ers who formerly lived . where it was published, or are in terested 111 ' 1m* p t a i *?? Oils.llM'xh ? r?MHfin>. And peop 1 ?? - ? - 1 i d awa> i?in:.y papers. 1: you want your !ow( to t-til ;i ^'OO.i figure he tore' World. Mib.-M-ilhe in he 1j?>iim* pa p?*r . ;(nd a d > e r 1 1 !- e as uaich a- - our hi> ir.i'hs will fail iy war rail' . i'.iMi.rl: er's y\ uxijiary. A >'!'K 1 1\ I \ ( . sTOi:v, i". lrviitw !'!? ?' h?-r, a t a rfp :? i * I'lub dinner in New Vui 1., :o.d a B'rikinii .nl .> r' "oiy, .-;.y. Washington Star "i <in CO Iliad'* a If! , .a s ? J ? lit;.; goods dea)? r, : ,?a;d Mr K-e'i !:i*r " i hal lie CO U i I i ! 1 t >p?*Ijil ;!! a .. tjLli Oil advertising all l.e made in 'iia' yar 'I'h** man took tile up and sailed in. "Uut he l<?t hit- bet. 'llioiiKlt ins advertising hlli.?* new alid biggvr, lit.* jOs-' . ! hi- s::tj:*?* ):?? advertised r i , ?? snore lie .-old, and In ihe end, after rdartin^ ? mill hrauch btores, lie ga\e in and p*id ine nty money." Mr. l'"let< hei paused, then added Impressively ' ,\ ny dealer, dry goodh <?r other wise. who doesn t helle\e tli!.- story, need only to ' ry it' himself to h i on '? lilt ed . story of IVii I'oor John Adams, second presiden i . '^a i i !i?- son of a j;orn>r of veyr moder- j a'e means. The onl> star; Ik.- had } wiib a yood '-duration. \ndrew Jackson was J. urn in a 1?>k | hi' :n North ('arulina, ai.d was rea r- j < d lit ihf pirn* woods lot aJik h ihe I r ? t? " e litllious. Jaiii' s K. i'oik spent t lw i arli? r ><*ars of i.;> i i ! . - hclpiriy :o di^ a' ii\ing oa : ,i n?'w farm it: North : Carolina Aao a!t< i^.Md ?. 1 ? r k i:i a rontt: r\ store. .Millard I-' i ! 1 mor?* .s.i> i ^ ? r : >?! Ni- ^ ork ! a !' ! : i ?? V . ;il;d !: ! - was a humble o!(. fi,* ]??.?. ?!.?? bus iness of f ! o! 1. 1?- r . Jaities iiu< i.ana:. ..... a.n;. ... small tow a in the \ ... > .. - I a i ns. I I i s fa 1 1 1 * ? i ? a " ? : ; ? in . : i built 'the house i! ' a wilderness. Abraham Lincoln v. . ?. .?? . . . f a w.retrhf(lly p<K>r r :? K. :: lucky, hikI lived In a '?<<* ? ''???: ? he was J 1 years old. Andrew Johnson w.t-. . . :.!.?? 1 ? on tailor at th**?age ot ?<???, y.-rs by his widowed mother Me *v:?? never abb* to attend st hool, . t ? : jueked up nil the education h ?- cv-r Mad Ulysses rf. Garnt lived the of 1 village boy. in a plain hous< or a.- banks of the Ohio river ' was seventeen yearn of age. James A <larfie!d was born in a >og cabin He worked on the farm until he was strong enough to use j carpenter's tools, when he learned ? ! he trade. He afterward worked on ' ; canal. fltover Cleveland's father was a. Presbyterian minister with a small i-.-uary and a large family. The t.uVs had to earn their living. [ GENERAL LEE ON DUTY I . i j LETTER WRITTEN TO* SON AT WEST POINT IN 1*&2* Chirtctlditlc Utt?r?nc? of th? F*rrv out Civil War Oantral It M4?ter ploco of Parental Character ' Building Advice. Tb? death of <i*?D O, W. C. !>*?, eld est %tt n of <ien H K recalled to mind a private latter of the famoua general written to this won, under date of April 0, ibW, when ('untie Lee ?ae a cadet at the rutted Htate* mili tary academy at Weat Point, and which van found at Arliugtou houa? during the Civil war, hay* the New York Bun The letter throughout is < Haracteriged by ronHaeijea*, eoiicirc ni?y and clarity, and on this account ?should find * piarc in any anthology as a masterpiece of correct Kngli?h arid a model of parental character building advice: Arlington House, April 6, lfc&2 ' My Ix ar Ho n ? I am Just In the act of leaving home for New Mexico My old reglnieni has been ordered to that distant region and I must hasten to Kfce that they are properly taken care -j of, I have but little to add In reply to your lettera of March 26, 27 and 28. Your lettera breathe a true aplrlt of frankness. They have given myself and your mother great pleaaure. You must study to be frank with the world, ? fraiikit*?a la tb*? eblld of honesty and ? I courage. Say what you mean to do on every occasion, and take It for ' granted you mean to do right. If a friend aska a favor you should grant It. If it is reasonable; if not, tell him plainly why you cannot. You will ! wrong him and wrong yourself by . . equivocation of any kind. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one; the man who requires you to do so 1h dearly purchased at a sac ' rtftce. Deal kindly, but firmly, with your classmates. Yott will find it the pol icy which wears beat. Above all, do not appear to others what you are not. If you have any fault to find with any one, t *- 1 1 him. i?ot others, of what you complain; there is no more dangerous : experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind Ills back. We should live, act and say nothing to the injury of any one. It is not only best a tv a . matter of principle-, but it is the path of peace and honor. In regard to duty, let rne, in conclusion of this hasty letter. inform you that, nearly a hundred years ago there was a day of remarkable gloom and dark ' ill known as the dark day, a day when the light of the sun was ? slowly extinguished, as if by an eclipse. The legislature 6f Connecti cut was in session, and as the mem bers saw the unexpected aijd unac countable darkness, coming on they shared in the general awe and terror It wa'? supposed by many that the last* day, the day of judgment, had come. Some one, in the consterna tion of the hour, moved an adjourn ment Then there arose an old puri tan legislator. Davenport, of Starn- ' ford, arid said that if the last day had come he desired to be found at his place doing his duty, and therefore moved thai candles be brought in mj that the house could proceed with its duty. "There was quietness'in tfcat man's soul, the quietness of heavenly w \a- ? dotn a iei inl.< xible willingness to obey present duty. Duty, the;:, is tho sublimcat. word in our lanfcunire. Do your duty. in all things like the old puritan. You can not do more. You should never wish t<.? do less. Never let rne and your mother wear one gray hair for any IjKk of duty on your part Your af fectionate father. It. E. LEE. "(} W fustlB Lee." How simple, true and honest U .K. Lee appears in this letter: what a noble and conscientious character stands revealed in the tenderness of his devoted paternal solicitude and the grandeur of his terse maxims. A 6 to the Unsigned Review. Professor Mahaffy, who has written criticism for more than i?0 years, is an advocate of the unsigned review. "If you have the article sign ed." he Kays, "you relieve the editor of hl? responsibility and he will admit a bad article signed by a widely known person, whereas better work by a young and starving writer is apt to be thrown aside." Ho recalls the old days of the Quarterly and the Edin burgh with the remark that "what was good enough to appear in the (Quar terly was good enough for anybody to read." The drift at present is to w.ard the signed review The Edin burgh, under its new editor, publishes Fignod articles, and within a ttion'h th* Manchester Guardian has gone to the extreme of publishing the ini tials of the writers of their reviews of the varietj theater*, though the re views are so ^hort that four of the.m make only half a column. Liberality. 'I am not in the habit of boasting," avers tin- landlady of the boarding house, "but I think you will agree ; with me that 1 always give you all a linb* more than you ask for" Y? s acquiesces the Star Hoarder. ?>> ! i> always pays a day in advance .iri right ? quite rigbt. Mrs Ham a:.d>^'*;s' Frinstanee. you have given n.i- ? ' hirken necks, 11 backs and sue . , ppf. more than I asked ter ? h e Mr two weeks " ' * t" gobs of gloom settled vi, ->\ t : tl table while the phono s t' ? parlor began playing \... ig r .l.e Robert K Lee." MYSTERIOUS ROMANCE . By A. Wi BEER. Had It not beeq for the hudker ( chief 1 would h ave Mid that It was clearly a case for (ho Society for ! Psychical Research and have washed my hands of it. Hut though to be sure a filmy enough object, the handker- \ chief, with the Initials 'B II, M." j daintily embroidered in one corner, was of a tsnglble nature, and (n no . way to be fitted into any theory of fpooks 4 And ye t the whole thing was absurd on the face of It. No doubt the simple explanation wan that the fever which ? had posaeatted my body for many weary weeks at ill dominated my brain. Wearying at length of the problem, I placed the delicate bit of' cambric and* lace beneath iny pillow and again re aliened myiclf to sleep. A year later I waa in California, os tensibly on a vacation, but also with a ? lew of absorbing color for a novel of pioneer days which I waa planning to write. I waa at dinner one evening in San PrandBCo with my friend Maxfleld, a newtjpaper man, when 1 caught sight of a familiar face at one of the restaurant i tables "That's Bigular!" I exclaimed pres ently. "What's alngular?" queried Maxfleld. i "If you have reference to the fair creature at whom you are gazing so' intently, 1 inay say that while she la certainly single. I do not know that she In looked upon as singular." "The fact is," I returned, "that for tho moment I imagined that I had mot the young woman Bomewbere before, but I am probabVy mistaken." "You've aeen her portrait in some of the literary papers, perhaps," suggest ed Maxfleld. "That's Enid B. Me^ry- ; weather, who is coming to the front a* a writer of some rather fetching verae " "Enid B. ? Merry weather!" said I. "Then her Initials are 'E B. M.?'" "Correct," replied. Maxwell. "You got it right the very first time. Hut why get so excited over a bunch of initials?" "Maxfleld," I retorted, ' you ought 4to know that the facetious la not your line, bo why attempt it? What I'd like to know is whether or not you have the honor of Miss Merryweath er's acquaintance; If bo, I want you; to present me." "Nothing easier, old man," he re plied promptly. There are Borne persons one meets to whom an introduction seems almost superfluous. You somehow feel that, you have -know them always. Thus It was with Enid and me. We : met, not as stranger, but as old friends who for a time had been sepa rated in body, but never in spirit. But one evening Enid Bald: "Do you know that I worried about ' you a great deal when you were ill last winter?" "Foolish girl'" I replied. "You had ; never met me." "And yet I seqm always to have known you," she murmured. "Enid," I said presently, "there is .something queer I want to tell you in' connection with that illness of mine. ' It seems utterly unreasonable, but there are some things beyond our un derstanding. "I had been dwelling for weeks in a! strange, fantastic world, when one night I awoke calm and rational, and 1 saw bending over mo one who seem ed the very embodiment of my heart's desir?>. I closed my eyes again for a; second, doubting Uib reality of what 1 saw, and when I opened them again j the lovely vision had faded. "I can't explain it, but it was you who came to me that night; and, more j wonderful still, here is the proof!" li took from over my heart the handker- j chief which I had found resting' lightly on the counterpane after the! disappearance of my mysterious visi tor. She took the handkerchief and ex- j amined It. "Yea, it lg mino." she said presently. And then she added: "As a writer of romances you would perhaps prefer the story left as it is, but 1 feel bound to tell you ju6t how this handkerchief came into your hands. "I don't know." she continued, "how or why you, came to occupy so much of my thoughts, when I knew you only through your books, but nevertheless such was the case. "When last winter it was reported] that your life was despaired of. I could | not ropt. Some of my friends guessed my seeret and rallied me accordingly. 1 gave out that I intended visiting I>os Angeles for a few weeks, but instead of doing so 1 went on by the southern j ron to to New York "I knew that the physician who con- 1 ducted the sanitarium in which you, were undergoing treatment, I)r. Star- 1 brook had been an old friend of my i father's, and upon arriving in New; York 1 made myself known to him. 1 told him that you were a very dear friend, but that for personal reasons: 1 did not want you to know of my presence in New York. There was nc . fear of that, however, as for a long ! time you knew no one "At length one evening when 1 had' called to inquire about you and had [ been admitted to your bedside hh us- j ual. you looked at me with rational eyes To avoid discovery I fled from ' the room, and this handkerchief 1 sup pose was dropped in my confusion "Now then," she concluded, "does not that destroy ail your pretty and mysterious romance*" Hut 1 think the answer I gave l^r convinced her that It did not imk.nti-;i> i vrKWHim Kirn Mwtiin*' for Writing Mwlr by South CmvIIu Man. To John Jonathan Pratt, of Cen i.t, Cherokee county, Alabama, who developed t be writer'* cramp, the I'uited State# owe# the invention of the typewriter. HU remain* now r?'tot near his old log house ou the <YuteM>ee*burg road practically un known by the passerby. Claude M Hall, of Birmingham, has lately inaugurated a campaign to revive intere*i in the memory of the Inventor and hopes the result Mill be the rearing of a monument ovw the lonely grave of the jen* l u H Ik plan involves *ma|l contri butions by users of the typewriter thruout Alabama and even the na ( ion. , jft* H If. iimyur, of Blrwiughaii, rnr iried Pratt* niece. The story of Mr Pratt's *truggles to have Ills invention made luto a practical in nirutuent and bin final success, of 'which others came near to ab&olute )> depriving him, is told in the fol lowing article penned by Kditor Shropshire, of the Coosa Itlver N ?.* w s , published at Center, Alabama. There are two or three other It reads as follows < laimants for the distinction of In venting the typewriter, but the hon or b#'loufcn to a Center man by the name of John Jonathan Pratt, who filed in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Sat urday, June 2 4, He was 7 4 years of age at the time of hin death, By birth he wa* a South Carolinian. He came to Center in 1850 from Union Oiatriet, S, C. He resided in Center until fifteen years before his dath, moving to Brook lyn, X. T, atJOiil 7 890 Two yeUrs before his death Mr. Pratt moved to Chattanooga. Thl? preliminary information was elicited by the fol lowing personal inquiry: "Birmingham, Ala,, Oct. 5, 1912. "Mr, T. H. Shropshire, Center, Ala., Dear Tol: 1 certainly would be glad If you will print in the New* a history of the John Pratt typewriter. I have a lot of friend* iu Hirmuigham who woul<J be ifUd t read It. I ?lal in he was the origi nal Inventor of any and all typewri ter* that i*, the flrvt one In eoce Am I right ? Remember readlng It in the New* at one time, but have forgotten whether he wa* the original inventor or not. "Claude M. Hall. I "lioyle'* Store." On December Id. 1857, Mr. Pratt whh appointed register In chancery of Cherokee county, and held to the Job until FVbrua/-y 22, 186 4. He had been working on a machine be fore t h It*, but while register ho took writer's cramp and declared that he would Invent a typewriter to Have such Buffering. He fixed a machine j that worked earlier, but did not'ln* Kin active walen of the Invention i until 1&?7, iu London, LuKland. He borrowed $10,000 from an i *unt, Mis* (Elizabeth Hetndon, who I resided iu Houth Car<?Hpa, in lH6i>, I or 18f?7. to finance operation-* and perfect patents both here and in the j BtateK of Kurope. However, in? i made his first trip to London early in the civil war and on thi* very I particular work While in England j IiIb machine excited a great deal of (comment in London papers and their, | description attracted the attention ! of Messrs. Scholes and Glaudden, of Milwaukee, who straightway 'Mjiven i led" the world wide Remington Ma chine: Before - taking leave for Ku j rope iu 1866, he entered into a j contract with ?ome parties in Mem ; phi?, Tenn., to perfect patent* at ! Washington and to manufacture hi* 1 machine. They violated the con tract and upon hi* return from Ku rope he met Mr. Hammond, a i i? h merchant of New York, who agreed to defeat the Memphi* men, which he did, under consideration of Mr. ! Pratt allowing him to manufacture | the typewriter under the name of t Hammond. Mr. Hammond then kept Prn.lt | iu hi* employ until death at $2,500 i per annum and also gave him 50c royally ou all uiaiblue* m?M. Both 1 the Heuilugtou and Hawiuoml iyofe J writer, therefore. original. ,1 J*' 1 Prfttt'l brain hark In nt. hrue? $ The grave of th* Inventor 11*. 1 two hundred yard* of hi* ,,l?i ^ 1 residence, whet* lie made |,i.s uj* $ model*. ?ud within fifty yanU of tb? t < vi.i.-i i.eeaburg road fttrang* JJ relate' hundred# of people, both ^0. 1 uieettc and visitor*, pa?u> by ik*. <1 IhI ingulf* h**d grave and piy n #Q '! attention. "Such lb :] inpham ' ? id ? > lloapital If Hp Wanted. ApplU-ptiona in writing ror 'J ploynuMK In a twenty l>? ?! charity h<>Hpltal to be opened In I'amden, h C., November 1st. 1913, will he re ceived up to October 1. I#l3. m list fctau* ?K(H>rfnlcp if 1 any, file testimonials, and *Uite B?d. ary expected. 1 white iiurwc, imper-1"^ Jntendent aua housekeeper. l whit* nurse; 1 colored nurse; I while- pu. j pij; 1 colored pupil; 1 orderly uo<j porter for day; 1 orderly and watch man for uiKlit ; I ? ?M?k J assistant ' to cook and waitress; 1 Herubaad washerwoman. J no. \V. Corbett, M d , Camden. s. ? ?! For the Committfte.A August 8, 1013. - | Wt rbl'h largest Trw, , j The largest tree in the world U I 'he giant redwood in hte California i forest called the (Jenerri* Grant tree, .t is 108 feet In circumference ?< j ?he has*-. Ita bark 1b nearly two J feet thick and the trunk Is free Qf J limbs to n height of *175 feetj wlier* It is Bt tl I 1 1 feet in diameter. The tree atanda on Mount Hob ltoy. These giant -tree* are not consid ered old until they are 3,000 year* of age. Let The Chronicle sell you your carbon paper and legal blanks. CoprrttK 1911. ?Ul)a*U. &trrm ft So. t Even We Admit that there are more important things in the world than having the right chothes. We realize that, as the poet < ? says, "A man's a man for a' that." <> ...... But, unfortunately, people will judge a fellow by the way he looks ? and even more unfortunately, lots of fellows don't look as well dressed as they might. It isn't because they don't want to, or because they don't try, it's because they don't know how or where to get gar ments that will bring out the best of them and hide the worst of them. We don't say that we can (because it wouldn't be modest) but we are morally sure that we might show you a Hart-Schaffner & Marx or a Michaels-Stern suit that would cause the first friend you met to con gratulate you on your improved appearance. BARUCH-NETTLES CO. "The Place That Sets The Pace" v