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THE WATEREE MESSENGER | -?'?i Published Every Tuesday - by . CHA8. W. BIRCHMORE, Prop. ' '/ y ?? - , . _ ' ' 11 Subscription $1.50 A Year in Advance Entered as Second Class Matter at the Postoffice at Camden, S. C. Tuosday, December 31, 1929 NEW YEAR DAWNS AT MIDNIGHT The year 1929 will vanish at mid night to-night, and when you awake in the morning you will have a new year to start out with. We hope that it will prove a year of many blessings to you, and that when it draws to a close you will find that success has crowned your lifo. It will be well to remember, however, that you cannot get value out of life un less you put value in it. There were failures durlnp* the present year, and our farmers were heavy lasers in many instances. We wish for them better success during the new year, and with past experiences chey have an opportunity of guarding against many of the failures they suffered this year. All of us make mistakes, and all of us have our heart aches, and may want a new start, and may wish like the poet who said: "I wish there were some beautiful place, Called th" La^d cf Beginning Again Where all our mistakes and all our heart aches, And all our poor selfish grief Ccu'..' V dropped, like a shabby coat, the door, And never put on again." With every good wish we extend you greetinrv for a happy and pros perous new year. A COUNTY HOME One of the needs of this county as we see it is a county home where some of the poor and helpless human creatures who cannot take care of themselves can be cared for. Some of them have relatives but are not responsible for their oare, and In many instances find it difficult to meet their own needs. A few days ago a lady called at our office to ask us If we could tell her what could be done with an aged man in her com munity who was making his home around with the neighbors, and that it was not at all convenient to fur nish him board and lodping. This is not an unusual case, for there are others ? In fact many others, who have nothing to live upon and no place to call homo. When they reach that point In life they cannot be here long, and it would be a mercy to pro vide for them, that their remaining days might be spent without racking anxiety as to where the next meal Is coming from. Our Idea of a coun ty home would be a place sufficiently large to care for a score of people and a competent person put In charge of the home to look after them. A county farm Is not desirable for they are unable to work upon it, but just have it roomy enough for them to get proper exercise. A county home Is needed, and we sincerely hope that there will be a spirit of cooperation manifested looking to such an insti tution for the helpless creatures who so urnantly need help. HARD ON HIS PANTS During a fire prevention campaign In a leading American city, younger school students were psked to write essays on fire prevention. A winning paper said: "Hundreds of people are killed ev ery year by fire. Mother was dry ' cleaning some clothes, the gasoline ^ignited and flames were all around but luckily she wasn't burned*; the v Mink was closed so In the course of time she got the fire out. Otherwise we wouldn't have had a bed to sleep llfeV:' ' ? "Just the other day I had several matches In my back pocket. I got down on the floor to get a nail out of the side of our row boat which we were fixing. I felt something warm In the seat of my pants until I couldn't stand it any longer. I could not imagine what it was, but you .should have seen me strip my pants of/, 1 found out all those matches ignited when I moved on the floor and burrifcd the whole pocket out of my pants. Luckily, my pants were not Inf lam able or I would have gone up In smoke." A homely object lesson given by a child, illustrating conditions which . Cause fires every day? improper use of gasoline and matches not kept In k proper contains!. Fire insurance companies are doing I everything in their power to reduce fire haaards and beneficial results will be secured In proportion as the public , women and elhldrsp ? cooper to save their own lives and prop ;.ILj il juj . PRISONS OVERCROWDED ' Many of the prisoners in oar coun try, both federal and state, are over- ! crowded, and congress is being asked for an appropriation of $7,000,000 to increase the capacity of the prisons. Many of the county jails over the country are inadequate to properly care for the prisoners. At Aubrn, N. Y., a Becond up-rising of prisoners who made a break for liberty occurr ed. There was trouble with the pris oners in the Charleston county jail recently and these conditions a re lia ble to occur at any time, and for that reason if no other- careful thought should be given the penal institutions. It is no small matter to kill -\ faith ful officer, and the arrangements in the jails should be such that this could be impossible to accomplish with any decree of care on the part of officers. Then the keeping of the races together as is done in some in stances is a positive wrong. and it is a great mistake to send yourT men who are not yet hardened "rirninals to places of servitude to work along with callous and hardened criminals. The federal government wo under stand maintains only one boys' re formatory, and that is up in Ohio. There should be several of them lo cated in various parts of the country. The one in Ohio it is said is over crowded, so when there is a convict ion of a boy who has gone wronq he must be sent to some of the regular federal prisons and thus be made a real criminal, for there is but little likelihood of reforming him when his associates are of the hardened type of prisoners. There is a national or ganization looking after these mat ters, but its progress is naturally slow, for as a rule many believe that just anything is good enough for just a criminal, forgetting the fact that there is th? possibility .of reforming him and making a good citizen out o i him. Then the American homes arc breaking down when it comes to properly training the children in the homes. After they have become criminals the task of reforming them is much more difficult than it would have been had they been started off right in the homes. There are but few who go wrong from deliberate choice, but many who just drift away. These are matters that should com mand the most serious thought of the best minds and hearts in our country today. FARMERS TO BE GIVEN AID The indications are that congress will appropriate six millions of d.d laps to be loaned to farmors who are mp against it as to their farms for another year. The loans made them Dv the federal government came in welT and made it possible for them to'finance their farm operations. Sen ator Smith is certain that one of the first things congress will do when it convenes will be to provide this fund for the farmers. Without this aid it will be a difficult task to farm dur ing 1930, for the crop failures of the present year were greater than dur ing 1028. There is something pathetic in the death of the Greenwood boy who took poison tablets on the 15th of Decem ber when he went to see a younp?lady whom it is said he was to marry dur ing the Christmas holidays, when he found her riding with another boy. The young lady it is said visited him in the hospital and wept bitterly ov er what he had done. Doubtless with out a thought of deserting him, she took a fide with another young man, but the poor fellow thought otherwise and took his own life. Poor fellow! We sympathize with the young lady < and the grief-stricken parents. The organi^flfelCJ^g&mas activities in taking cai^Joftnfc needy have proven a ftreat bresaingVto many dur- ' ing the holidays/ TherAseems to be a growing sontilnent aloVg this line and the spirit ofl^operati\i has been splendid. V HE WOULD IT INTERESTIl According to a dispatch from Co lumbia, Judge Mendel L. Smith of Camden, is expected to be a candi date for governor next summer as the champion and friend of the bond issue plan for completing the state highway system. In all probability that issue will have passed before rho next campaifyi, through a decision of the United States Supreme court not to interfere with South Carolina'" af fairs, but should it be about, no man in the state will be more able to make clear to the people of the state the advantage of the bond issue plan. His able and brilliant argument u** fore the Supreme Court of "South Carolina supporting the constitution ality of the act, was a masterpiece and should be heard by the people of the state. Judge Smith with a state wide l?*ue of interest to th*, people would make a great campaign. ??Spartanburg Herald. 10 YEARS TR0UULB7.J ROUTED UY 8 ARGON "I suffered tin years with indiges tion and pains in my stomach after nearly every meal. (Sometimes the pressure around my heart would make me feel like I was amothering to death. i ? ? - ! MRS. MARY T. MANGU1M I Constipation bothered me a nreat l^eal, and I'm sure it was caused by a sluggish liver. No medicine I could find would help me more than just temporarily. i "Recently my mother visited me and got me to try Sarrvn, which had done the Fame for me. I can eat anything I want, even cabbage, with out a sign of indigestion. Kargon Pills put my liver to work and ended my constipation. I feel like a new woman." ? Mrs. Mary T. Mangum, 1117 Wolf St., Durham, N. C. ZEMP & DePASS, Agents | ?AUTO DRIVER HEM) IN JOCKEY'S DEATH | ? ? Frank Peak of Blaney Jailed After InqueHt into Dentsvllle Wreck j While noncommittal on the blame ,for Henry Leaman's death at Dents jVille Monday nipht, a coroner's jury I verdict returned yesterday morning directed that the old jockey came to < his death from being struck and run jover by an automobile driven by Frank Peak of Blaney. ) Peak was committed to the Rich land county jail by Coroner McCain (and Sheriff T. A. Heise immediately after the inquest. The jury did not , recommend thats Peak be held but at the same time failed to authorize the coroner to release the man who . claimed the death unavoidable. | Leaman, 74 years old, was killed i when he walked in front of an au tomobile or was hit due to faulty driving on the part of Peak in front of a little store Leaman operated in ^entsville, six miles from Columbia. I Apparently, he died instantly. I R. L. Branham and C. R. Bowen, I both* of Blaney, passengers in Peak's car, testified at the inquest they be I lieved the accident unavoidable. It ,was said that Leaman had been drink ling and a small bottle of whiskey was found in his clothes. I Residents of the town reported to the sheriff, the coroner and County j Policeman J. R. Crossland that Lea iman had no relatives. He was born , in Columbia, leaving here when 15 to roam about the country, jockeying at all the leading race tracks. He died ,a victim of the machine which has superseded the horse. ? The State, 25th inst. Died Christmas Day The Rev. I. E. Lowery, 79, well , known Negro minister of Columbia, died Wednesday at his late residence after a short illness. | He was born in Sumter county, the slave of John Fermson, who was an officer ii\^the Methodist church. He attended one of the Freedmen's schools after the Confederate war and later went to Charleston, where he studied at the Baker Theological in ! stitute to prepare himself for the ministry. He preached in Columbia and the surrounding territory for a bout 50 years and had the respect and confidence of both races. I He was the first student to enroll at Claflin university at Orangeburg. He studied there for two years and entered the ministry. He is the au ! thor of three books and wrote at times for the daily press. He was | an earnest Chirstian minister.^ The State. ftiuth Carolina has a clean sheet so far as lynchings are concerned for 1920, not a single one having occur red in the State.* Why not keep the sheet clean? There i? no reaosn for mob violence. The whole number of j lynchings has decreased as shown by 'the statement published elsewh^ro, only ten having occurred in the entire country. (By REV. P. B. flTZWATER, D.D.. Mem btr of Faculty. Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) ?. l?J0. Weetero Nawapapar Union.) Lesson for January 5 THE CHILDHOOD OF JESU8 * LESSON TEXT? Matthew 1:1-1:13 (Print Matt 2:10-13). QOLDEN TEXT? Thou ahalt call Ilia nama Jeaus for H? shall save Hla peo ple from their sine. V PRIMARY TOPIC ? God's Cara of Je aua When a Child. JUNIOR TOPIC ? Ood'a Cara of Jeaua Whan a Child. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP 1C ? How the Child-King Was Received. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP IC ? Childhood of the Savlour-Klng. The central theme of Matthew Is Jesus Christ the King, the fulttller of the Messianic hope. In harmony with this pre-eminent theme, Matthew first deals with the all Important question of His genealogy, for His right to oc cupy the throne of David must he es tabllshecL The royal covenant was made to David (II Sain. 7:8-10. cf. Acts 2:30 82). In harmony with this, the first verse of Matthew's record constitutes a key to the hook. I. The Birth of Jesus, the King (1:18 25). I. The Saviour wub to be the seed of a woman (Gen. 3:15). the son of a virgin (Is. 7:14). This was fulfilled In the birth of Jesus. The genealogy (Matt. 1:1-17) shows His legal right to the throne, but something more Is required In order to be the Saviour from sin. He must be both human and divine (Is. 9:1). The Saviour was be gotten by the Holy Ghost and born of the Virgin Mary, thus becoming Immanuel, which In Its fullness means, "God wltb us, God for us, and God In us." II. The Childhood of Jesus, the King (2:1-23). 1. Wise men from the Bast seeking Israel's King (vv. 1, 2). The King's reception was most heartless. His own nation received Him not. His advent waB heralded by a star which guided men of a foreign , nation to seek and worship Him. pour ing out their gifts to Him. These men were Persian or Arabian astrologers students of the stars. Their attention was attracted by the appearance of an unusual star. Through the Influ ence of the Jews who remained In Ohaldea, or the direct Influence of Daniel extending to this time, they had become acquainted with Israel's hope as to the Messlnh. 2. Herod seeking to kill the King (vv. 8-8; 10-18). The news brought by the wise men struck terror to Herod's heart. He was not alone In this, for all Jerusalem was troubled with him. The news I ought to have brought Joy. but a glimpse at the social customs in and about Jerusalem of that day enables us to understand why this news brought unqaslness to the people. They were living In the grentest luxury. Fine dress, sumptuous feasts, fine houses and other luxuries led to gross Immoralities. This Is why Herod and Jerusalem were troubled. A Saviour who would save them from their sins was not wunted. Their desire wns to continue in them. Herod demanded of the priests and scribes information as to where Christ should be born. The fact that they were able to tell hlin so promptly shows that they had a technical knowledge of the Scriptures, but not a heart for the Saviour set forth therein. We face similar condi tions today. This all occurred In Jerusalem, the city of the King, the place of all places where He should have been welcome. When the wise men returned to their country by an other way, Herod slew all the male children two years of age and under In Bethlehem and Its coasts. I 8. The King found by the wise men J (vv. 0-12). The wise men having obtained the ? desired Information, started Immedi ately to And the King. As soon as they left the city, the star as It guided them In the East, appeared again to lead them on. Not that It had disappeared from the sky, but the dwellings of the city no doubt shut out the sight of It. i Frequently, spiritual vision Is oh | scared by the things of this world , 4. The King protected (vv. 18*23). I (1) Flight to Egypt (vv. 13-15). j To escape Herod's wicked aim. God ' directed Joseph to take Mary and the child Jesus and flee to Egypt. In obedience' to the heavenly vision, hp went and remained there till Herod's death. (2) Return to Nur-ureth (vv. 1JV2JM Upon the deuth of Herod, the angel of the Lord directed Joseph to take I .Jesus and His mother and go Into the land of Israel. By divine direction, he returned to Oalllee and dwelt at Na* sreth. Kind Words Kind words can never die because they are expressions of God's love God, the ever-living one. Is love, and Bis words are eternal; they are the expression of Ills, onchanglng nature ?Selected. la God* a Atmoipltara of Lot* " When we are living In God's at mosphere of love He notices our cry for help, though soft as a whisper or as a tamtk oo a garment's heat- Dr. W. B. Mayer. HALF MINUTE PULPIT By Rev. T. M. Stevenson Presbyterian Chut-ch, Kershaw THE PRAYER LIFE OF JESUS? Brought him to his Father's pre sence, though His face was hid den. Matt. 27:40. Sustained him in his consummate agony in Gethsemane. Matt. 26: 30-44. Prepared him to formulate the world's model prayer. iMatt. 0: 9-13. Clothed him with peace in the hour of death. Luke 23:40. Called down upon him the Father's signal approval. Jno. 12:27, 28. Inspired in others the desire to know how to pray.. Luke 11:1. JOHN W. SUMNER I John W. Sumner, age 85, died at Blaney at 11:40 Tuesday morning. He had been in declining health for sev eral years. He is survived by three sons: G. P. Sumner and J. O. Sum ner of Columbia and J. A. Sumner of Lykesland, and a daughter, Mrs. Ro hon, of Blaney; one brother, H. P. Sumner, of Peak; a sister, Msr. Jake Counts, of Columbia. Funeral services will be held at McOormick's imort^aTj^ Wednesday morning a* 11:30. conducted by the Rev. Mr. Hall of B!?ney. 1 Interment will be in St. John's Lu theran churchyard Newberry county, at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Sumner, a venerable citizen, had a host of friends to mourn his passing. ? State, 25th inst. W. O. W. MEETING I Live Oak Camp, No. 49, "W. O. W. meets the last Thun?dav evening in i ea"h month at R p. m. Visiting sov crp'en,. ooHiflllv wolcomed. M. G. HUCK A RFV. PWk. C. W. nrUCHMORE, C. C PAINFUL INDIGESTION 1 8UFFEREP from Indi gestion ? everything I ate gave me heartburn," ?ays Mrs. Mattie Mul lina, of Pound, Va. Tor months, I did not see a well day. I wor ried along, but never felt well. **I got a package of Thed* ford's Black-Draught at the store and began taking it ? a dose every night before going to bed I had been having an awfiil pain. After I had taken Black-Draught, this pain en* tirely stopped. I began to gain in weight, and rested well at night. In a few months I was feeling fine. My health was bet ter than it had been in years. "I keep Black-Draught in our home, and we all take it for constipation and upset Stomach." Insist on Thedford's CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION, .BILIOUSNESS WOMEN wW mW . lonk (houM uk. B0?? U DM ?vm so fMn. IU1 VULCANIZING AND BATTERY SERVIC1S Prompt and Satisfactory Attention Given to all orders GOODYEAR TIRES and WILLARD BATTERIES Greasing and Car Washing Call upon us when we can be of service to you. Prices reas onable. Phone 38 Cor. DeKalb & Fair MYERS SERVICE STATION DcKALB COUNCIL NO. 88, JU. O. U. A. V. meets in regular counei. the 1st and 3rd Mondays of each month, at 8 r Clock. Visiting members welcome D. J. CREED. Councilor L H. JONES, Roc. Sec. I - ' ? MYERS SERVICE STA TION Corner DeKalb & Fair Sts 666 is a Prescription for Colds, Grippe, Flu, Dengue, Bilious Fever and Malaria. It is the most speedy remedy known REGISTERED JERSEY BULL FOR SERVICE | I have a Registered Jersey Hull for service on my farm eight miles cast of Camden. LEO MOSELEY, Cam den, R. F. D. 2. REGISTERED BULL FOR SERVICE ? I have a registered Guernsey Bull ready for service, at my stable on Rutledge street. J. J. TO I.B FORT. Notice to Dog Owners The 1030 dog license tax will be due and payable January 1, lD.'JO. Tho tax is $1.25 for each dog ? one dollar of which is credited to the school dis trict from which the tax is paid. School trustees m?y check up on their district as every tax paid means addi tional funds for school district. S. W. HOGUK, County Treasurer. Dec. 2, 1929. W1LSE W. MARTIN HARNESS and SADDLE MAKER Wholeaala leather and Bho? Finding* Aatn Top Maker and it?pwir?i IIII'K DKALKM 1 114- IB- IK Hampton St. Fkonc 6K2f COLUMBIA, &. C. SEABOARD AIR LINK RAILWAY COMPANY Schedule* From and To Camden, S. C. Corrected to December 20, 1929 Arrive 9:05 A. M. 12:18 P. M. I 10:03 P. M. 5:48 A. M. 5:23 P. M. 7:41 P. M. I From For Eantern Oitien ? ? Florid'. Eastern Cities ? Florida Eastern Cites ? Florida Florida-1- Eastern Cities Florida ? Eastern Cities Florida? Eastern Cities Loav? 9:05 A. M. 12:18 P. M. 10:03 P. M. ">:48 A. M. r>:23 P. M. 7:41 P. M. PULLMANS ? COACHES ? DINftftS ror further information or r?*erv?tion*, call on Ticket Ajjont.