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? ,V ? ; ? ? ' ' v.- : ^ 'ri... . SAFE, OR SORRY It your property were to k<> up in smoko tonight, would you be safe, or sorry? It will be too late to decide thin question after Ihe fire has occurred. Now is the time to decide it, while the property is still standing. INSURANCE protects your property, protects your peace of mind and protects your credit. We want to make you safe, and will do so if you will see us. Our companies are the oldest arid soundest in the world. CAMDEN LOAN & REALTY COMPANY Office Man Bldg. Telephone 62. HUMOROUS PEN PICTURE OF THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA NEGRO Fixmu cmii'I.v ehildhood 1 ha-vc * u constant observer ii i)?l an ardent ???! - rulrer of Ilii- wound rolls works of (iod, says S. ?Ir. Ihivis. of 1 txl in itol:i , Miss., in (lie Memphis (VMinnereial Appeal. In my early days birds, l>ees, bugs, and flowers wvre a uever-ejidlng source at pleasure to me; ami when a.Jad of uiori' mature years 1 have lain for hours In the shade of some friend ly tree and played with a loud frog or a .lune bug until 'the dinner horn blew, when I was erron?*ously supposed to have heen diligently hoeing cotton. In after ,\ears 1 have sjtt silently on the .seasllore watvhed the tide ol>I? and Jltrw* ; I have climbed lofty moun tains aud stood on the hanks of the world's greatest rivers ami watched the tunbulcut waters roll by; I have looked a1>ovn into the starry d?H."k?*d dome of heaven and gazed iijh>ii the far-away planets and comets ]>erf min ing J. heir sttijHMidous and harmonious Revolutions and have s?h?u written ftpou the fare of all nature the glory and wonder of the great Creator. Hut I have always ami do now. regard the negro as his uiasterprere. lie* stands alone In a class by himself; and while the Yazoo and M iKslssljypi l?eltu is peculiarly suited to his needs; yet hi' ran adjust himself to nuv kind of elimatie conditions and live and die haiM>y under the inosr living coudi t Ions. Il<* can lie down beneath I lie scorch ing rays of a noonday -vin and sleep tin* .sleep of the seven sleejH'rs of old without suO'ering any evil effoets from it whatev<'r. or he ran weather the fiercest winter gale. clad only in a pair oJ" r.'tton overalls ami a blue jumper, lie ran also wear tin over coat on a I'ourth ?>f July <vlebrntion. or a pn n of linen pants anil an al)>nca coat to a Christmas tree and tx? jhm l'eitly comfortable. And. strange as ii may seem, anyl*ody's elothes will tit him aud look niee on him. King Solo mon. in his declining .years. when In had bee?*me thoroughly dlsgushs) with high s?x4et \ and fast living, said there was notttiug new under the sun ; that he had <?oih all the gaits and had sn-n the whole show from the free cxhihi tion t'? the grand o>neert. and that there wit.i nothing t ?> It, or words to that effect. Hut it will t>c rcnnuibered that- !??? never hud any negroes to ^leal with. or ho would have had a now problem to solve every day of hits eventful 11 IV. There is nothing else like the negro under the sun. lie sees all things and has Implicit faith In everything ho seen or hears, and stands ready at ail 'times to step aboard of anything that comes along from a young initio to a Hying mu ohlne. .Wireless telegraph Is nothing new to him ; he has us?hI It for ages ; every negro's mouth Is a transmitter and every ear a receiver. If anything of importance hapiHMis on a plantation tonight every negro for forty miles around will know, it*, in the morning. If you ever arrive in a delta town on I the train on n Sunday and the whole eolorod imputation is not at the depot to nnvt you do not get oft" the train, for you may know that of a surety some catastrophe has struck the town. Saturday is his special day by custom and common consent, and if you have any business to attend to in a delta town on Saturday, attend to It early ami get oil' the streets before you get hurt. A negro cannot see you on Saturday unless you owe him some thing. and it' you got In his way he is liable to step on you. sit down on you. <?r back you up against a brick wall ;iiitl smother you to death. Ho does imi usually do these tilings or any of I hem. through any evil design, as many sometimes -sup]>osc. but ho sim ply cannot help it it' you got in his \va\. for he Is busy anil eannot look out for you. Saturday is Ills "rat Ions aim heus exchange dily." and In addition to having all those things on his mind, he has to shako hands with every other negro woman he moots. You had better take out an accident policy or gci off th?' streets Saturday. The standard "rations" for a negro is a po<-k of corn meal, two pounds of sugar, one pound of colfee. three pound*, of salt meat and one gallon of dark moljivscs it week, but he can consume all of this at one sitting if necessary, or if he Is working for you and boardinu himself, he can live a w<H\k on th tiny soda crackers, a box of Mtrdlncs and five rents worth of cheese. ' i In other words his stomach Is hull I on the same general plan of an old fashioned aeeurdion, and either eon tracts or expands accord lug to the pressure brought to boar upon it. He is also luimuno to nearly all kinds of poison, and ean swallow the most deadly drugs without impunity. I re member of having a negro working for me onO time who was having chlllH and suffering with severe headaches. I got him a -bottle of chill tonic to take and a bottle of liniment to rub his Iwick with. The liniment was labelled In box car letters, "Poison, for extef nal use only" and I cautioned lilni about it. but for three days and nights before 1 found it out, hi' bad been rub bing his back with the chill tonic and taking u tablespoon of the liniment throe times a day before each meal with excellent results. On another occasion I was sick and had a negro to wait on me and the doctor opened a ean of nntlphlyglstlnc to make a plaster for my side, and left the cun (Hi the kitchen table, and when my negro went in to get his su]yper, he mistook It for a can of peanut butter and ate the whole of it without even having discovered his mistake. The negro does not lay up treasures on earth where moth and rust would corrode them or where thieves might break through and steal, but when he has money or other valuable things he Immediately puts it Into circulation, and the things in which -he usUally in vests are never of a ]>crmaueut or lasting nature. He spends much mon ey each year for legal and medical advice, presumably for rUe purpose of finding out what he ought to do, so that lie may do t/he opj>oslte, for it If a well known fact that a negrd was never known to shut a gate. or follow anybody's advice about anything.. He is also an ardent admirer of tiie work turned out hy the dental mirgoon, and down deep in every negro's heart there is a secret longing to some day have a gold toottli In front, one on a plate so that he can take it out and look at it and put it back at will. He is likewise a great admirer of art, and nearly every negro's borne be it ever so humble, tljere hangs a life-size crayon portrait of himself on the wall right op]>osite tho door^where you will be sure to see it as you come in tho door. The rest of the surplus money he usually spends for enter tainment, preferably on an excursion, but anything else in motion will do. I 'have frequently stood on a street cor ner 011 n ??old. cloudy day and watched as many as fifty negroes, who would not average fifty cents each, and none of whom had 011 clothes enough^to llag a hand car. clinging to a merry-go round as it went round and round, grinding out that well-known and much beloved melody, "Oh Illll Bailey, Why Don't You tNiino Home," and their front t.eetih shining like the keys 011 a "baby grand" piano, while hun dreds of others, who did not have the price of a ride, were standing in half fio/.en mud shoe mouth deep, cheer ing them as they came around. All tlliings are pleading to him. A circus or a funeral Is equally enjoy able, hut a protracted meeting fol DRUG STORE SUNDRIES in addition to a complete line ol' drugs and propri etary medicines, wo carry a full supply of Rubber poods of all kinds. Combs and brushes, all grades and prices. All kinds of toilet preparations. Perish, pencils, inks and stationery. W. Robin Zemp's Drug Store Telephone 30. LANDLORDS OR TENANTS Which will your children be 7 Will they be owners <>r renters? Real Estate is going up ? up ? and you'd better get in at once if you would leave your child a ome. It. makes no difference what you want ? farm, city property or unimproved land ? we have it. We spend our time in the business of bringing together the buyers and sellers of Real 1-Jstate. See us if you wish t<? connect with either. C. P. DuBOSE & COMPANY REAL ESTATE INSURANCE CROCKER BUILDING ? K i PHONE 43 lowed by a public* hanging U bin chclfcst .loilght. The negro wa? omse the white man's slave, but that wan wily for a abort time, aud was a part of tho great Kcheaie'wbltib <h>d had in mind to ts'tter prepare .hi iu for (bo en joyment <*f i bo groat things which II" meant to boMUrw ujmui him In tbo fu ture. Ily long aud close ftaaoiiiitlou with the white man, the negro learned all his ways. and can now size blm up and classify blm Just a* accurately an a cotton buyer doos tbo different grades of cotton. and can do It mudb quicker. lit* no longer Is a slave to man or Mauuuon. and verily that Scripture which says: "Tbo last shall bo llrwt and the llrst shall bo last" has already come to pass and tho negro now has a reserved neat on tho front row. If any good things are to 1st had lie in sure to got Ms share. One day a negro ask (Ml uio If I thought h negro had a soul, ltold him I luost assured ly did. And if ho drd not have ono It was tho only thing I had evor board of a white man having that a negro did not got If be atayod with him long enough, Tbo negro baa no great problems to solve. There Is no race question so far as ho Is concerned. lie enjoys tho society of all races, ages and nationalities, and will mingle freely with any of them, lie enjoys with equal pleasure the companionship ot' a 5-year old white ls>y, or ai? aged Chinaman w<l!o Is unable to speak or understand a single Word of English, for in either case he gets to do most of tho talking. ? The tariff question or the currency question does not Interest him In tho least. .Silver Is his standard twid he does not want any other kind of mon ey. Noltlnn- does tho Mexican situation worry h'Lrn any. All those things are tho white man's troubles. Hut if the white folks want to whip Mexico or anybody else for any cause, or with out any cause for that matter, and will furnish him with the arms and ammunition, and will back him up in It, he will l>e glad to do it for them. nho road question is the only ques tion that ever gave the negro any real trouble, but that was when he was tfubjoot to rood doty, and happily for him, that burden has been shifted to the white, man and the roads of the delta are now being worked by tax ation. and all the has to do is pack them down after they are constructed. Neither does the levee or the want of a levee bother him. That is some more of the white folks' trouble. If wo have an overflow or do not have one, it is right .with him. If we do have one he is the first to have a l>oat and get out . Into it and paddles around from morning until night with the blessed assurance that there will l>e no more work done while it lasts, and that he will draw bis rations from his land lord or the government, and some times both, until it subsides. When ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR MAYOR I take this method of announcing myself -as a candidate for Mayor of tlw? City of Camden at the primary election to l>c held in March. S. F. BRASINGTON. For Mayor. ?v\. \ r\l n f ha nVt rv f milan ? AV 4.1** X tlillMCii . I horehv announce 1113 self a caiicli date for the office of Mayor of our City in the coming municipal election, and if honored with this office I pledge you my l>est. efforts towards a coaser vative and progressive business ad ministration. W. HOBTN ZT'MP. For Mayor. At the solicitation of friends I here by announce myself a candidate for the otTice of Mayor of the City of i^amden in the coming municipal elec tion and If elected promise my hest efforts toward a business administra tion. W. Dl'NN. Aldennan Ward I. I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-election to the office of Alderman from Ward 1 for the city of Ouinden, in the next munici[ial elec tion. \V. I.. JACKSON Alderman Ward I. At 4 lie request of friends I hereby announce myself a cam lid ate' for the office of Alderman from Ward 1. in the coming municipal election. prom ising to abide the result (?f said elec tion. J. F. SMITH. . Alderman Ward 2. I hereby announce myself a candi date for recleetion to the office of iK iderinan from Ward 'J. in the coia ing election for citv officers. II. S. ' WILMAMS. "Alderman Ward 3. I hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of Alderman of the City of Camden from Ward .'J. in the coming mnnieJpal election, and if elected pledge my best effort** toward a progressive . business administra tion. W. II. PEAIiCK., Alderman Ward 4. I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-cle<*tio?i to the office of Alderman from Ward subject to the rules of the next municipal elect ion. GEORGK A. RI1AMK. Alderman Ward 5. I hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of Alderman from Ward r? of the city of Camden, in the coming municipal election. C. P. DuBO.SK. Alderman Ward 6. I l>ere*>y announce myself as a can didate for re-election as Aldennan from Ward 6 of the city of (Camden at the cdming primary. W. R. HOUGH over a negro tire* of country life bo move* t4? tutyjv. acquire a charcoal bucket uml a tailor'* goowc, forms nn alliance wit Ii houm> white mail's cook, and; with his living thus assured, 'ojieu* a cleaning and pressing establishment., IJr tU(U> gets .9Ut Monday morning and gathers In the Sunday oloWUe# of Iho white clerks of the town, and after wealing them himself every night dur ing the week, he gets up Saturday morning and treats them to a gaso line Imth, llat tens them out with a red* hot iron and rutfw* them homo to their owners so that they may wear them Sunday, collect* $1.50 for his M?rvlco* In their behalf and goes on his way rejoicing. 1 tut should there Is* any apcclal occasion in town on Saturday night which he wishes to attend lie holds buck the liest suit that ho happens to have on hand and wears It to that and carries It home Sunday morning. If ho liuppens to wake np In time; otherwise Its owner can lay In bed over Sunday, and he will bring It hack the following Monday. If lier chance his fancy does not run to clean ing elothes, ho gets himself a gasoline stove and other paraphernalia where with to defeat the vagrant statute, and sets up a lunch counter, where ho serves all .siu-h an ma yea re to eomo his way, irrespective of race, color, or previous conditions or servitude, with hamburgers, hot cat-flsh and beef : in usage, and some swwt siilrlt -of fermentation on the side. Hut should neither of tllUe voeatlons appeal to lilm, he usually opens u colored -barber shop with pool room and crap table in the rea r. As soon as the city authorities be come obnoxious to hlui. however, he again goes back to the qulot country life, usually light after the Christmas holidays, and joins himself to a cotton planter, and by his certain written contract, duly executed In triplicate, obligates and binds himself to culti vate and gather a crop of cotton on the land therein descrilwd and on the strength thereof proceeds to eat up anywhere from $ii to $.'100 worth of grub w folic he is waiting for the ground to get into shape to plough, and It frequently happens that when the tree begins to bud and when the birds begin to sing, Mi'. Negro is seized with wanderlust, and suddenly disappears, and i>eople who once knew him., know him no more forever. Eve ry Delta town has its full quota of negro women, who, like t/he lily, toil not neither do they spin, yet the Queen of Shoba, in all her glory was never clad like unto one of them. Surely the negro is fearfully, and wonderfully made, and his ways are past linding out. Honor Koll For Crescent School. (trade 1 ? Harvey CJofY. Iretta GoiT, Coleman Hawkins. Grade L' ? Arthur Miles. (Jrade .'1 I'aul Bran ham, Lewis Miles, Fred Miles. Alma Nettles. Halkard Ha w kins. (Jrade -i ? Thelma Porter. Sallio Hran ha in. Fay Pooser. Grade 5 ? Julia Miles. (Jrade 7 ? Lulu Mae Porter. (trade 8 ? Elizabeth Kennedy. Grade t> ? Arabel Kennedy. T>arry Mc lieod. "Ikjd" *H?her. the cartoonist ? wfc draw* Mutt aud Jefl;, *pd the salary over paid tt newspaper aril#.; w<mv than flOO/XW * jv*#, has been made ? captain In the army. ? < FINAL DISCHARGE X??tUt? is hereby given that 0tti| m<y?th from ctitH rta to on Tue*di?i April Kith. 1M1R, wo will mako to l?rot?ato Court of K^rtthaw CoutS Oiir dual return HH Kxeout'ors of (?1 estate of J. H. Hail, deceased, ;nMj on tJu? same day we will apply to t|* said Court for a final discharge fro? our trust ?h said Kxecutors. All parties, if any, having olaiim against Hie said estate will pr<>st>4 them duly attested on or before that date or be forever barred. JKH?SK J. HAM,. It. N. UkhU |s' Wxeeutors. Camden. S. C., March it, 1018. FINAL DISCHARGE Notiec is hereby giveh that on month from this date on Monday. Apr! lfith, 1018, I will make to the pr ivate < Vuirt of Kershaw County to; Una 1 return uh Administrator of tt? estate of Adolphus B. Martin, dewasc^ and on the nanio day I will apply |( the said eoyi't for a final discharge^ said Administrator. All parties, If any, having elalaj against the said estate will pro^o3 them duly nttes'ted on or before t]3 date or be foi-ever ' bareed. ?* J. PANIWIj MARTIN, Administrator. Camden, S, C., March 8t.h, 1018. Notieo to Debtors and Creditors. All parties indebted to the est. of \Y\ C. It'atcliffe, deceased, are tail by notified to make -payment to tlH undorsigned, and nil parties, if t having claims' against the said es will present them duly attested, wl In the time prescribed by law, W. H. RATCMFFE, ir. o. ham,, - Qualified H.vccutorc. I Camdeu, S. (?., February 18tli, 19u| ? >. . .wt r Notice to DeWorn and Creditors. All parties indebted to the fssatei Mrs. Mary A. Hough, deceased, i hereby notified to make payment me, and all parties (if any) haitfl claims against the said estate will j sent them duly attested within I time prescribed* by law. . .taMks t. hough, Executor. Camden, S. C.. February 20tb, 191&j HAY FOR SALE! WE HAVE 100 TONS OF HAY NICELY CURED' FOR SALE AT REASONABLE PRICES FOR CASH * . % > v L. I. GUION, Lugoff, S. G THERE'S ?IN? YOUR SGML < '.rr M But you won't get it out unless you help t^ie soil. ?, This year, when you want every acre to yield to the limit, you have urgent need of well-balanced COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS We have a brand for every crop? ? corn, potato#* peas, beans ? anything that grows in the grountf. > You can't afford to do without a good fertilizer i if, you want soil efficiency. ... -A ? 'M Help your soil to help you. . ~ .".1 V ' / ; ' ' f*