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All Next Week?Greater Argyle Shows?Auspices Cheraw Board of Trade jj IB fA*** A i ' ? (lijc ejjeratu Ctjronidc | Volume 18 CHERAW, CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, S. C., AUGUST 13, 1914 Number 37 ;ftj ' v7 "*1 ?^i???? ^M?????? ?? & a? Yi (OI HT lllirSK I.KITKH Y> 8 b Rev. R. A. Rouse, county superintendent of education, preached at Shiloh last Sunlay morning and at St. Paul that night. The pastor. Rev. J. L. Tyler, was at Blenheim assisting Rev. J. S. Beasley in a meeting. The sermons hv Rev. Rouse were heard by large and appreciative congregations. Rev. J. L. Tyler is conducting a meeting at Shiloh church, preaching twice a day, 10.30 a. 111. and ">.00 p. in., The services are being held- in the old church. The new building will not be ready for occupancy for several weeks, hence the lecision to have i the meeting now. Miss Edna Anderson, of Barnwell. S. C.. is visiting relatives in town. Miss Anderson attended the summer school at the 1'niversity of Virginia at Charlottsvillc, Va., and will likely return to Virginia and aeeept a position there. The third quarterly conference for Chesterfield circuit v/ill be hell at Zoar church on the fourth Sunday and Monday following. Rev. \V. A. Massebeau will preach at Zoar at 11 a. ^PH^WPi Bonds Ph< . 1 iSETiTi lnsta:-.02s of Supreme Tests cf Human Endurance. Some cf the Terrible Experiences of Those Who Have Been Shipwrecked ?Battles Fought on Raft by Drunken Castaways. It Is difficult to imagine the suTerings of the boat's crew of the Columbian, who drifted about the Atlantic for 14 days before being picked up, for only the strongest could stand such exposure. Yet the annals of the sea show instances in which men have survived even greater hardships than this, London Answers states. An example was provided by the two boats of tlie Carnarvon Castle, which was burnt some miles from West Wnnrl'c Trhrlp M.ir!* ! Crimson Clover I Is Best Quality Obtainable, j of High Tested Germination and Purity. Crimson Clover is a wonderful soil- j improver; also make < sphi.did fall, winter ami sprinir grazing, thccariitst green feed, or a good hay crop. A crop of Crimson Clover turned under is equal to a irood application of stable manure, and its value as a soil-improver is worth ?-0. to :>o0. per j a ore. ' Wood's Descriptive Fall Catalog pivimr full information about CRIMSON CLOVER, ALFALFA, WINTER VETCH. and all FAR" ? " r" ' -mailed on request. , V._L.v ?or Catalog and prices of any Seeds required. ; T.W.WOOD & SONS. giteS Skhmond, Va. p. in. on the fourth Sunday. Mr. and .Mrs. ('. P. Mangttm are visiting frienls and relatives in and I around Pageland. Next Sunday at Zoar church, Rev. J. L. Tyler, the pastor.will baptize andr ececeive applicants for church ! membership. Fourteen persons are to be baptized and received into the church. i Next Sunday night there will be r. Layman's Missionary service at St. Paul church. These monthly missionary services are always very interesting and neer fail to lraw lare congregations. i i Dai- T T> Ou-un i c nnna trntl in meeting at Kbcnezer church on east Chesterfield circuit. Mr. J. X. Anderson, agent for the Southern R. R. at Barnwell, S. C., is spending a few days visiting his sisters, Mrs. J. L. Tyler and Mrs. Claudia G. Kennely. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Httnley, who have heen spending their honeymoon in the mountains of Western North Carolina, are expected home now soon. Thev will occupy their pretty IRtle bungalow on West Main street.' | . Mr. R. E. Hanna left yesterday for F J R. JE !t ? ? - 4 -m-v 4 one 84 Mayhard-Kal I Deposit yc i? The Bank X i h ) r a vv 1 i i stkomukk tjiw all otiiku iia i M 01 j W 0 in savir . \ ~~ ' " Australia on January UI, 1 The captain said they would reach land in seven days, but it was L'i before, by pood luck, they chanced on the only spot where they could land. ? v ?i"- iir>!ita lost siirht I V>li I l*|#l Kill \ n.v U"?.w - - ? of oik aunther. but on tin* twentyfoi'rt!: d:;\ il e mate's cr<*w arrived at h< tti i st i: kind, bavins had no water for four di.ys ,m d i o meat for tin-same time. some laving been without lor seven days. Although they had drunk salt wait r it did not seem to do them any harm, and only oik* man and two apprentices succumbed. With clothes in rays, weak front lack of nourishment and sleep, another day or two would have finished then). They bathed to eool their bodies and smoked leather for lack of anything else. It was said that it was largely owing to I the captain's courage and mainteI nance of the usual discipline and j watches that land was readied. Then there was the ghastly story of : the Mignonette, which sent such a thrill of horror through the country in | the middle 'Ms. Sailing for Australia j It foundered in a gale 1,600 miles from j the cape, the captain, mate, a sailor itrevard, X. C'. His wife is already up in the mountains at their lovely summer home. Troublesome Gender. The trouble that Latin gender gives to American boys and girls who are struggling with the rudiments of that tongue should inspire in them a sympathetic feeling for a small descendant of the race of Attlia who found the gender of our English nouns and pronouns a stumbling block. A solid little figure trudged up to the librarian in the children's room. "That little boy," he declared, indicating the rest of the room vaguely with his thumb, "be hit me." The "liberry teacher" followed him back across the room until the accusing thumb halted near a table where sat a guilty looking child about half the size of the plaintiff. The accuser explained: "That little hoy. she hit me. That little boy is <i little girl; but he has short hair, and when I point at him, she hits me." ?Youth's Companion. . Discoverer of the Pacific. The discoverer of the Pacific, ocean was Vasco Nunez de Balboa. On the early morning of the 25th of September. 1515, Balboa, and a small party ot men, made their laborious way up the densely covered face of a steep ridge ; from the summit of which they were . rewarded with the vision of the great, "South aea" which, up to that time, i had never been seen by the eye of a (white man. ?? I N S U R Iiwujraatfund xearssest Losses Paid Promptly ey Realty & Tru^ >ur money l j . i I of Cheraw , s. c. N !iS IN I I!K I IHM V l OMIWNI.I. nded quarterly lgs department am: a noy away in a provihiuuless boat. For days liny drifted, Retting weaker and weaker, and then it was proposed t?> draw lc.ts to determine which ' f n,. i.-iiierl. However. I his was rejected, hut on the twentieth day rlic boy was killed by the captain, the survivors being picked up four days later. The captain and mate were tried for murder on their return, sentence of death being commuted to six months' imprisonment. Perhaps one of the most ghastly tales of shipwrecked mariners adrift concerns some fifteen survivors of the 15" men of the French frigate Medusa, who crowded on a badly made raft. It occurred just a century ago. the frigate striking a rock when sailing at full speed. The captain climbed into a boat and lad soldiers and sailors crowded on to a hastily made raft G5 by 25 feet. It was to have b^en towed by the boats to the nearest land, but before going far the rope of the captain's boat broke and the rest cut their cables. Yet land was known to be close, and the same evening was made by the boats. [success must be earned Earnest, Intelligent Effort, With Industry, Will Set One Well on the Pa'th to the Goal. Most men who have amounted to anything started with nothing but ability and determination?a combination which recognizes no man-made limitations. ; Any kind of work is better than idleness. which is directly responsible for most of the unhappiness in this world. Idleness is a dangerous thing; it may grow into a habit that might stick to you after you get back in harness, and the man who loafs on his job is only fooling himself. Lternai, intelligent effort is the price of commercial growth, and where there is no progression there is bound to be retrogression. Business is something like aeroplaning; to stop is to drop and to drop is generally to bust. Pin your faith to the law of compensation, but don't take any stock in | the law of chance; there's no such thing. Waiting for something to turn up in the belief that things are bound to come your way eventually is throwing dice with fate. Many a good dog never got a decent bone until his teeth were gone. More Oancts for Coroners. It is predicted that a speed of 100 miles an hour will i"1 reached by electric nrd ?f?am railways. Then even ircre re.sens will be reached by can'ivn hail express and limited trolley { car at grade crossings. A N C E ipnjy the best old line comp* 4 \ Co., Agents cSerc On the rafts were a few casks of wine and some biscuits, part of which were served out the same day. When next morning dawned it was found that a number had been crushed to death, while the following night many were washed off into the sea, and the rest trying to crowd toward the middle to avoid a like fate several were suffocated. Then some of the. soldiers broached the remaining casks of wine, and in drunken fury tried to cut the rope binding the planks of the raft. Others tried to prevent it. until n regular battle raged, in wMch C>.1 were killed; some cut down the mast and others ; threw overboard the last of the water and two casks of wine. On the third night more died, and j t!io survivors turned to the bodies o! j their comrades for sustenance, while some fly inn fish added to their slender resources. In the night another attempt to destroy the raft was made, and the madmen were thrown overboard. Thirty only now remained alive, and of these two died and two soldiers found drinking some of the remaining wine were puthed into tiie sea. The I horrors were not at an end. Fifteen I of the twenty-seven held a council of war. and decided that only those who seemed likely, to survive should be allowed on the raft,'as their stores were almost gone. Three days later those still alive ) were rescued by a vessel sent out to ' search for the Medusa. ?. Wireless telegraphy has done much to reduce the chances of horrors such, as these occurring. To err is human, but it counts against your fielding average. j Twins generate more admiration than envy among the neighbors. I Many a man's idea of improving j his time Is to tinker with his watch. Some men are thrown in the shade and others stand in their own light. Some men are so contrary that even their food doesn't agree with them. The Chronicle Is only SI per year GATHERED FACTS / '; Motor launches are to be used In China on the River Swatow. Germany's annual excess of birth* over deaths is now about 800,000. . -'3#f Rubber nails, for places where metal ones would corrode, are a novelty from Germany. In the electric furnace gold boils at 2,400 degrees centigrade, ' or at 24 times the"' temperature of boiling waEnglish locomotive works have been so busy of late one English railway had to order ten locomotive? from Germany. ,/v|J Oil instead of coal ranges will be used on the newest United States battleships because of its greater cleanliness in cooking. In France farmers are experiment- ^ lng with a prolifio potato from Uruguay, which perpetuates itself with kflj roots left in the soil. After two years of experiments, the Philippine government is about to begin practical work In planting camphor trees all over the islands. H H The development of quicksilver mines promises to make. large de-^^H^H mands for cordwood and construction^H^^H timbers on the Tonto national fores^^^^J^H We are eara^^^H "SBTVS- 1 appreciate } lWy your business^H^H TOOK POSSESSION Cr HOUSE Crowning Eccentricity of Englishwom- ^H an's Life, That Was Filled With ^ Eccentricities. I # In an old book published in Paris under the title of "Le Journal d'un Voy .ir* mi T.pvant.'i thore is an amusing account of the way 1c which Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope, the eccentric English traveler,- took possession of i the house at Djoun, where eventually ; she made her permanent home. S She was pleased with the house and j its surrounding gardens, and accepted j an invitation to dinner. As she sat af| ter dinner, with the owner, a Christian ! merchant, he said to her that if she | liked the place, he should be glad if ! she would stay the night. When she said that she liked it so much that j she would stay there the rest of her | days, he took It as a polite figure of ; ispeech; but a fortnight later, as she I still prolonged her visit, he suggested | that Europe might be expecting her | return. "I do not intend to return," she re? ^ plied, carelessly. "Ah, then you intend to build a palace in the neighborhood?" said he. "No, this house suits me very well." "Hut I cannot let it or sell it, miI lady." "I do not wish to hire it or buy it, j but I intend to keep it," was the start1 ling reply. In this dilemma the merchant disI patched a messenger posthaste to ! Emir Beshyr, who sent word to Lady '{ Hester that she must give up the i house. I*'idy Hester, however, wrote to Constantinople, whence a courier came to the emir, bearing the order, P'Obey the princess of Europe in everything." So the disgusted merchant fled, leaving her ladyship in possession. There for 20 years she lived the life of a recluse, growing more and more withdrawn from the world, and more accustomed to dwell in a mental and spiritual realm of her own creation, until she died, and was buried in the garden of the house that she had usurped. Send you orlers to The Chronicle now for your job printing. t t