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THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1925 JVfiler Speculate* on { . Pouible “Dog Hearten” Been thinking again. Been sitting Scratching my ‘dog’s ear and think ing. Nice little dog. She has more sense and more humanity almost than lots of humans whom 1 have met up with. What a wonderful thing is the love and care of an animal for her yoqng 1 People have been coming over to see her puppies—three ugly little ball pups, with not much to see hut wrinkles, says a dog fancier in Adventure Magazine. Yesterday they disappeared mys teriously from their nest in the cor ner of my little barn.. I looked round and by and by found them. She had <lug a large round bole under 'the house and there she bad taken them. I brought them out to the lawn. She smiled at me, in a superior and moth erly manner and promptly lifted one t>y his hind thigh and bore him away to her newly made nest. In a very few minutes they were all back un der the house. Then she came and Idoked up, smiling at me. and request ed me to scratch her under the ear. It would be rather nice If there ac tually were a dog star, would It not? Where we might in the hereafter meet up with our old dogs and bear Just what they had to say. The complete trust and comrade ship that a dog offers to a man is a lovely thing. Too bad so many men nre not even fit for the trust of a little yaller dog! It Is such an unwavering and utter trust. It’ ought to make a man the better,' causing him to sense something of his responsibility to the animal creation. Don’t you think so? It would be rather correct, I think, if In the hereafter there Is pi dog ktar In which the dogs will live happily together with all the doggy affaln ar ranged to suit themselves. Then, per haps, those humans who In this world have been unworthy of the confidence of their dogs will be led round on chains and fed upon old bones, and occasionally dipped in sheep dip to kill their fleaa eh? Shut in the pound and left there till some dog comes along and agrees to pay for their license? How’s that for an Idea, now? Think I’m mad for sure, don’t you? Well— maybe I am, but It was the mother of the puppies below my house who put me wise to It. You’d better look out. Maybe you will have to wear a muzzle yet. In dog star land. Panama*» Noah*a Ark Burro Colorado Island was formed when the valleys about it were flooded by the Impounding 6f the .water of the Chagres river to form Gatun lake, says the Detroit News. It resembles Noah’s ark In that there gathered as the waters Tose ✓nearly every form of animal life in the vicinity, seeking escape from the rising flood. , ■ ■ Despite that It 1st only two miles from the Panama river, It has been found to harbor amphibians of new and strange habits as yet unstudied Ond Innumerable species of insects never described, as well as many strdnge and exotic .plants, number ing 2,000 or more. It abounds with anteaters, sloths, armadillos, peccaries, tapirs, agoutis, coatis, the ocelot, the Jaguar, many species of bat, monkeys -of various kinds and the famous black howlers. May End Moaquito Plague An end to modhuito plague may he brought about by»aising a brand of non-stinging mosquitoes guaranteed to expel the stinging Variety, accord ing to a paper by a well-known Scien tist. read In the Academy of Sciences, Paris. The scientist described how he had found In certain parts of Brittany a variety of common mos quitoes which never entered houses and never stung human beings. Fur thermore, he noted that where these were found there was never any sign oflthe stinging variety. As an experi ment he transported some of the harmless variety from Brittany .to the Charente department and found the non-stingers supplanted their stinging brothers in a short time. Her Depraved Taate Marie Veronica believed in knowing her job. “I’ve got a real, depraved •taste for labor.” she said. “1 Just ^an’t keep away from it. Some girls take up golf, and I’ve known others wear their fingers to the bone reading dene Stratton Porter. But me—work just yanks me away from tennis and motoring and shopping, and the rest of the strenuous things that make woman old before her time. "It’s a sad symptom, but I take nat urally to the heat and burden of the day. Give me Just a yard of work and I’m happier than any girl with a vaca tion at Newport and a round of gaiety In her engagement book.”—From "Marie Vee," by Douglas Newton. YOUNG WOOD’S EXAMPLE. IS IT SOCIALISM? THE BABY CROP. North Carolina wants a law* that would stop fUrting. Men ogling girls or women wmild be fined or locked up. If North Carolina, where men are so chivalrous, needs that law, other states need one more severe. * i v . Only a few years ago, ten or fif teen thousand, the man uiat met a lady on the street grabbed her by the hair and dragged her to his cave by force. You can see how much men have improved. There is one-comfort. If the young ladies walk demurely, witlv their eyes on their little pink shoes, they won’t notice unwelcome attention. # , , A great many young people read about Osborne Wood", son of the United States governor of the Philli- pines, and about his big winnings in Wall Street and his big winnings in European gambling houses. Now comes the end of the story. Young Wood has no money. The French police, hunting him, accuse him of passing worthless checks. Young Wood says, “I have had my dance, now I must pay the fiddler.” Don’t gamble, it doesn’t pay. Senator McKellar, Democrat from Tennessee, says of the bill that would turn Muscle Shoals over to the power trust: “The passage of the Under wood measure would be the greatest calamity that has happened to the South since the Civil War.” Many senators know that it is so, but if one of the biggest monopolies wants-something you can hardly ex pect the United States senate to re fuse it. You can, however, expect President Coolidge to veto it. He has, from Henry Ford’s exact information on the Muscle Shoals affair. •The president is in favor of stop ping all national inheritance taxes. He calls them “socialism,” although it is not clear why taxing a fortune of a hundred millions that a rich man leaves behind him is any more social istic than to tax a small cottage in which a poor man is,raising tyi^ fanv ily. However, it certainly seems better to tax a rich man while he is alive than to tax his children. Leaving big fortunes to children may be foolish, but the desire to do so makes men work, when they would otherwise stop working. And what the country wants is the most work from the ablest men. One important proof of booming prosperity. In New York, our big gest city, the rush to get married be fore Lent came exceeded all records. Not fewer than fifty couples stood in line, all day, waiting for licenses. This guarantees, most important of all our crops, the crop of native-born babies on which the country and the future depend. The only real wealth is human intelligence. The mothers create it. _ It is suggested that part of the nonsense connected with the new arms conference will be talk about reducing or forbidding the use of aircrfat in war. You might as well talk about eliminating railroad trains or gun powder from war. The first thing for the United States to do is to build up an aircraft force superior to that of any nation on earth. The best time fcb talk to a burglar about not using firearms is when you have your own gun pointed at his chest. Musgrove Road Now Completed • The Musgrove road from Clinton to the Enoree river bridge has been com pleted and opened to the traveling public. The road for most of the- distance follows the ‘old route. It is wqll graded and drained, and is built of a good grade of top soil. It opens up a fertile territory and gives the" people of this section and the through travel a direct short route to Spartan burg and Union. Woman in New Role First civil -marriage to he conducted by a woman in England was cele brated when Miss Dorothy M. Hal dane, the deputy-superintendent regis- . trar. officiated in St. Giles’ register office, Bloomsbury, London. Miss Haldane was appointed deputy-super intendent last April. The bridegroom showed some astonishment at a wom an officiating. Although the first marriage conducted-by a woman in a register office, women have previously officiated at religious ceremonies. Page Howard Carter The leader of the orchestra was not particularly youthful, ^although she tried to be. After a partlculai-iy vig- iorous but fatiguing number, a wag in the third row chirped: "I’ll bet she saw the last eclipse.” Mr. and Mrs. Florence Hunter and Dr. Ralph Hunter of Simpsonville, and Mrs. George Owing, of OwingsJ visited their aunt^ Mrs. S ; A. PJiil-.j son, on Tuesday. What about letting us fit up that extra bed room with an odd dress er, chiff and a wood-fin ish Simmons’ steel bed? The‘outfit will cost but * • • ” little and you would cer tainly be pleased with it. Fuller - Simpson Furni ture Company, THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. — PAGE SEVEN DUKE NOT AFTER WALTER JOHNSON On Account of Five Year Contract With Presbyterian College, Says Statem^ht Froih Durham. Durham, March 9.—Walter John son, coach at Presbyterion College of South Carolina, is not being consider ed as a possible football coach at Duke university, according to official an nouncement here today, since he is un der a five-year contract with the South Carolina institution. Coach Johnson was among more than two score candidates who were being considered, but owing to his contract with Presbyterian College he will not be considered as a possible head coach for the Blue Devils. The statement by Duke officials was made following an unofficial an nouncement that Johnson had been selected. Two Gars Have Head-on Collision very impressive way, creating a great- Minter Company To Hold Spring Opening A spring opening, showing all the. latest styles, colors and favored materials, is announced for Friday and Saturday of this week *by» the well known firm of Minter Company of Laurens. The ladies of Clinton and tbia surrounding community are cordially invited to attend this special showing, which promises to be one of unusual interest. TEACHERS’ CIRCLE HOLDS MEETING The Teachers’ Ciroj$ of the Thorn well Memorial church held an interest- Mr. Fred Gaines and family, travel. * n K meeting on Monday evening at the ing in their sedan car, had a head-on; home 0 f Mrs. M. R. Kirkpatrick with collision. Sunday night with a Buick ; Mrs. A. Caiey and Miss Eunice Patton car occupied by several negroes. The, as hostesses, Mrs. Laura Kirkpatrick accident occured just above the re-; tau Rht the story of Ming Kwong in v a sidence of Mr. Guy L. Copeland. Both ' 5 cars 'were completely demonished while the occupants miraculously es caped alive. Mr. and Mrs. Gaines and ! children, accompanied by a friend, were coming towards Clinton while 1 the Buick car was headed in the oppo- ’ sitite direction. Hctw the accident! occured is unkown, both parties being unconscious of the danger until after the clash came. Mr. and Mrs. Gaines were severely cut in several places, while their children escaped unhurt. One of the negro women in the Buick car was badly hurt and suffered a se vere loss-of blood “by cuts from the . windshield. She was carried to Dr. Hays hospital for medical attention. Mr. and Mrs. Gaines were able to leave the hospital yesterday and their friends ate glad to know that their accident did not prove fatal. er interest among the members in the church’s missoih work in China. P. C. GLEE CLUB PLEASES Chester, March 10.—The i Presby terian College glee club and orches tra rendered a delightful program at the high school auditorium Saturday evening before a large and apprecia tive audience. b OR SALE—One 2-tube radio set with all accesories including three sets of head phones. $45.. See Allix Davis. Magazines American Magazine $2.50; Woman’s Home Companion $1.50; clubbed to gether $3.25. Collier’s Weekly $2.00; all'for $5.00. JAMES W. CALDWELL MAGAZINES—NEWSPAPERS Phone 243 at 12:30 h We can always please you if you want some thing, for the kitchen. We are offering splen did values in stoves, ran ges, kitchen cabinets,, and tables at various prices. Fuller-Simpson Furniture Company. Easy to Pay- Easy to Play $-+~m », \\>A ask dad to slip on his hat and coat. Bring him down to our * i store and let him put his feet on the pedals of a Gulbransen Regis tering Piano. If he likes it, we’ll explain in a few simple sentences our extra-easy payment plan. O’DANIEL & REID Clinton, S. C. The Ford car costs so little and is such a glutton for punishment that many people think any kind of oil is good enough for it. We know one town where Ford owners buy second'hand oal drained from crank cases of a trucking company. The Ford will run on most anything that passes for oil, but it will run longer, more quietly* and more cheaply if lubricated with oil made especially for its engine and transmission. The best oil of that class is \ anne MOTOR OILS STANDARD OIL COMPANY (New Jersey) '