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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE *. ??? - . ' |~m II. l>. Nllis (editor nod Publisher Published ?*v?'ry Friday at No. 1100 Broad Street ami entered iji I lit* Camden, Boutb Carolina |K>Htofficc. an second class mail matter Price per annum 92.60. s. c., September l, IU21. The latest return from tjto wttie election abows that Cote \i. Hlease ha* quite a long loaij over bin nearest op ponent. Thomas <VMol/eod, In the race for governor. It is generally coue<Mled that a vote for I -a ne.v weans a vole tSU M-VT^hhI, <><1(1*11 Will readily be fc&Qn that Mr. Hloase has very lllTlc <1m n> < of being elected, if the *ame number of volivs are c.ixt in t he second primary Added to this Jh the fact that many anti-Hlenxo voters wore away from the state In the mountains or oh business trips, nnd it will be ?jeen it hat tin* ma jority tol?e oast auaInst the former gov ernor, In the wecond primary will lw greater than ever before. ? ioveriiai' llardwlck of < Jeorgia, has commuted to lift' imprisonment tho death sentcnoc of <Menn M. Hudson, the Daugherty county farmer who wft? some time ago convicted of the murder of his two young stolons. The gov ernor says that while the evidence warranted oonvietlon, there was 111 an element of doubt in the matter. (k>l. James Marks Wdlllams, wife and daughter were killed at Durham, N. 0., last Wednesday night while try ing to cross a railroad track In an au tomobile. They were si ruck hy a fiiiln. The big bcsaplaue Sampaio, which left New York for Hra/.ll last week, nan wrecked Tuesday between Nassau wild Ila.vtl. The disaster occurred as the result of the pilot mistaking his distance while trying to land on the sea In Hie da i/kn?v?s. Ail I hands were *nVed hy t he United States cruiser Denver. Kepresenl al i\e Hill. Itepuhlicau. of Maryland, ?><cck* removal ??f I'Viicral Prohibit Ion ?Commissioner lljiyncs on l he ground that he is iisin^ tho |?>*tnl franking privilege for the purpose of "ending onl jM'rsonal political propa ganda in the intenvd of himself and his a>?sochiios of the Anti-Kaloon 1 -eak'tio Work on I he Wilwon duni at Muscle Shoals, Ala., is to be resumed on Octo ber l. the .sum of $7,T?(K),tHX) having hr>en made available for tin* pnnpose. Kflurnh Shown. Through the (?otii'lcjlJf of the Coluw* Ida S|at(< ami Charleston New* and ('niuici , The ilttoi.ji !i a,is enabled tt? *how the election returns js fast ?y.they were tabulated lust rne*duy A it luriftojufia cro\v4 asaein Itltd III 11ont pi the office' In tho early i vfiiinu ' i?'i i i iiuiiiici until midnight, where a atcreoptleoii machine wan put Into use, giving the reettH# on a Korocn M Hie street. The paper is uu tier tunny obligation* to (ttisiKll?iWICll as ilie maniiKci* of Ihe election, the telephone and telegraph operator*, Ml*. M M MiiaOAi Vernon lJixon. the chairman and accretary of the county . \. r 111 (\- e CiviTTtfllTtT^nti n ft rrftirrs- for- i hn HjjiHltitailce. rendered \\h, The county returns were gathered unusually fast ami they too, were posted on a tabu lated statement hung In the front win dow. v We hope we will receive the same wood assistance from the ioana jeers and (lie piddle In the second .pri mary held September liith, and invite Ihe county and town ipeoplo.to he our guests again that evening. We Would r??s|M.*etfully request, how ever, tiiat those who are not helping take llie returns remain on the outride of the building, ami not to call this office for information during the re ceiving of the returns, for it addH de lay to thoao who are working faat to give the whole piddle the news as first as |H>HsihIe. We will again use the stcreopt Icon machine to show the re.su its. The Fnltcd Stat?\s .Steel corporation, along with the other hlg steel-making concerns, have announced nu Increase of 20 per cent in all day wages, the In crease to lake effect September I. The Majewtlc, largest whip afloat, ar rived at New York Wednesday, twelve hours late, having been delayed be cause of (he necessity of making en gine room repairs at sea. The Pacific mills at Law re-nee, Mass., have offered to restore wages to the rate that wa? in effect previous to I lie st l ike. Fifteen socialists were arrested as the result of a raid on a meeting at Itridtfciuan, Mich., last Tuesday, The meeting was being held in the woods and the officers nlaimctl that it was for unlawful purposes. Anthracite Coal was first used for fuel by two Counrcticut blacksmiths In 17(?.S-0b, and was first used in a Krato as domestic fuel by Judge Jes*se Fell of Wilkes-Bar re, Pa., in 180.S. Q1IIIJCN KAKN8 *25,000 A YKAK South Carolina Suuill Town Editor lias National Kiput.it ion. At Fountain Inn, S. a v111uk? * of Ivan than 1,000 iiMplo, live* a man ulio Is a .phi In. u|.licr and yet wimff in w ril?? adventure stories of the South Sins'; a humorist who would like at Hmfa to he II tragedian; a wandcrrr who slays at homo Instead of takli;',' U?? Long Trail, 1111 name 1* ltobert Quillen. fin: :us friomis -ami every man. woimaq Mild cldld?(all hlin lloh. Ho is tlu same Roitfrt Qui Hon wh<w*o humorous. wholesome. human a r tides you read now every Sunday In various papers muter the heading "Folks Hack IIouio." I IA 'Vil I am the first newspaper or iQaga&iiie <M>rre?poiHlout to whom Quillen haw ever given an Intervh-w. The thing I wanted to know most of all was how ho has succeeded in I he writing game, "What Is tlio secret of your suecc-^7" 1 asked him. He smiled?a wariu, lovable smile "I guess I ought to strike a J*>se and nay something that sounds big," lie answered, "Hut the truth Is I worked, worked aud then worked spine more. Success Is measured by a fel low's willingness to sweat." After all, though, the real story of Qdhrtn's success as a writer Is the story of the world boating a "pathway to his door, the world being iK>rsoni fied by fbe editor of the Saturday Kvenfng Post. For L'O years Robert Quillen wrote fiction. Wrote hundreds of stories, long ,and short. And never to this day has he sold a single one of them. The same Suturday Evening Post which later gave his "Small-Town Stuff'* to its millions''of reader* rejected several hundred of his fiction stories. And then in a roundal>oht way The Post dis covered that for years Quillen had been writing homely, philosophical lit tie essays in the form of editorials for the Fountain Inn Tribune, a weekly newspaper owned and edited by him.j The Post, discovered too that those same editorials would delight its read ers. Then Robert Quillen had arrived ! It happened thl^ way: Some five or six years ago 'George It Koester, editor of the Greenville, S. (\, Piedmont, picked up a copy of the Fountain Inn Tribune aud read one of Qullleu's editorials. He imme diately decided that the Piedmont needed Quillen: that the Piedmont wanted hlin"To write paragraphs and ??dltoriaU QUllleil said he couldn't write paragraphs. 1'lnally It Wii HXivnl Utwccn ihcl<l that fep W?t to continue to edit uiul publish the Trib une and Wtl to write editorials and paragraph* f?r Piedmont too. Almost Immediately t!??? J.Horary l>igest began to quote IiIm paragraph*. In a few wveka a Ulchmond paper , wrote to ttic Piedmont ami wanted those paragraphs. So Qulllcn syndl* rated them to the Hlehmoud pai*r. Within six months lie had mx'ome oue : of the most Widely quoted paragraph* ci'x In the t'ldled Stnte->. Then one eventful day. the editor of the Piedmont received a letter from 4?f?tliu l'uit..? - ^, The letter said In effect that tU? Saturday K veiling Poet wanted Quilten ninoim it* contributory. -Qullleti ad mits that when lie wai shown the let ter he nearly fainted, "The only thing I had to send them was a hatch of editorials for next week's Tribune, mo I named them 'Small Town Stuff and sent them in.' confidently expecting a rejection slip, j j the qame sort I had got from the Post | any number of times before when I j [ sent them a story. But In this case the rejection slip proved to be a check. I | Along with the check Came a letter J t saying the Post wanted "Small Town 'stuff" every week, "It was the same material I had been giving the readers of the Foun* tain Inn Tribune for the past 11 years. I'm still like It. I haven't tried to write down to Fountain Inn or up to Boston/' From that time on Qulllen's rise was remarkable. In the short i>eripd of IS months his Income jumped from about $2.C?00 a year to $2o,000 a .year ?and it's still jumping.. When the Post made "Small Town Stuff" a reg "ulffir feature, Qulllen signed a contract with a large Oflijl'agio syndicate to handle hi* paragraphs. At the present time about 800 newspapers in the United States carry his paragraphs as a regular daily feature, and half as many more carry his "Home Town! Stuff'* jk* a Sunday feature. And he's the same Bob Cjiilllen who set the type and ran the little old hand press of the Tribune five years ???>. in fact, up tt> a very few months past he continued to run the Tribune, although he did get a 'printer to help him because of the press of other work. He's not a bit stuck up; not one little bit. lie's still Hob Qullleti to Foun tain Inn. Newspapers and magazines have made him tempting offers to move to New York, Philadelphia, Bos REMOVAL NOTICE The cotton office of W. H. Haile has been moved to the building formerly oc cu pied by The, Bank of Camden. ton and Baltimore, but ho stays la Fountain Inn because he loves) the place. Ills bouse Is not the finest, nor bin automobile the most expensive in iht village. t i ' I)ob Qulllen was born in a Kaunas "cow-town" some 40 years ago, the son of the editor of a small weekly paper. He grew up with the stain of printer's ink on hi* homely little ftice and hands. When he was about 1* years old, he drifted around the coun try working on first one newspaper and then another, until at last I he landed iu Fountain Iun and got a Job as prHitet on the Tribune, Here he fouud the girl of his dreams. V married her and drifted on again, o&ly to t?onie back, again to EVmnbaiu Inn, ??We just knocked about from bad to Woose," said Bob, with his whimsical srafle, "until at last we catne back here and planted our vine and fig tree. So kiddies came, so we asked the or phanage for a red-headed, freckled faced Irish boy. They sent u? . a falr sfeinited, golden-haired girl. And 1 gwss we're satisfied. OXFORD "CHASE" BUGGIES AND IVRRIYI Arc Tmk Btst By Tear A YOU CAN NOT AFFORD TO SACRIFICE QUALITv TO IAVK rJv OOUARB IN THE prick or A ? auooY Oft &URRCY TRAOC MARK OUR MOTTO IS QU$?/TY ? THt OXFORD -CHASE- QUALITY WALL BE RCMEMBKREO LONO AFTER PRICE HAS BEEN ' FORGOTTEN ? #v/v?(MM?7WArMaw/a*mNwmiKmjmirMmf SOLO BY RHAME BROTHERS ON OCTOBER j * ? \ The Camden Building & Loan Association will retire its FIRST SERIES which has earned about eight per ?ent per annum for six years. Stockholders may receive CASH in full for their stock, or may leave ALL or ANY PART with interest at six per cent. This is a good earning investment and ABSOLUTELY SAFE, as it is secured by FIRST MORTGAGES on improved city property. AI SO. ON OCTOBER Fir 4 '? . t ? i > < j ? V; ? j j' . x- : i i 1 \ ? , 1 \ * . ? * \ \k - ? ? ?. ? \ssgcI-? ticr. v/;.?: ; -. NEW SERIES. . . .? > e r J* i ic: c I s\. -? 'is V ? J 4 .1 ? _ . - ? V f v. . 5V J * ..;ia jjeuer cr ?&? OciviklkS E^ok