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CAM|?RN, HOITH CJAROMNA, JI NK W, l?tl.
"LINOTYPE WAY"
FOR CHRONICLE
V
OI'FIIATIONH OF ONK OF THK MBCHANICA/j MMl\^l-S of THK
ACJK ? TYPKHWTTINCi IIY HAND HAH OlVKN WAV TO THK
TOUCH OF A KKYBOAItl) ANO TYPKMAKIMJ ? YKAltM
HFKNT IN UXFHitlMKNTINU ? ITH CAPACITY AND
ITH PRODUCT ? A FULL DRHCRIPTION.
With thin issue of" The Chronicle
is Inaugurated an improvement in
our mechanlcel department which
i'lacea us another stride in advance.
We huve Just installed^ one of the
latent improved pattern* of the
two-letter Junior Liu'otype. By Its
uko we will he enabled to issue a
larger and better paper than we
have ever' been in position to pro
duce heretofore.
Frequently in the pant we have
been compelled to omit important
items that reached 4jb-too late to
he put in typo. Now all such con
tingencioH arc absolutely avoided.
The machine will do the work of
three or four hand compositors, so
that we will never be at a loss in
the future about printing a detailed
story concerning whatever happens.
/Vdded to this advantage, we can
always present our readers with a
frnper printed from brand-new type,
or slugs, as the product of the Lin
type \s called. After being once
Used for an edition of the paper,
these slugs are not preserved, but
Cast back into the melting-pot or
crucible of the machine, there to be
roduced^to a molten or semi-fluid
state and subsequently recast into
new slugs for the next edition...
While a great many of our read
ers may have seen a Linotype at
(tome time or other, possibly very
fewof"them have ever seen a Junior
Linotype. ^For the benefit of such
as have never seen either, a de
scription of tliis wonderful machine
is given herewith.
The Junior Linotype is a modlfl
catfon of the original standard Lin
otype, and, with the exception that
its scop*.* \h somewhat limited, has
ail tli."5 strong features which made
the parent machine famous. A few
words about its evolution and de
velopement will be appropriate at
this time.
About nlnoteen years ago John It.
Rogers Invented i composing and
casting machlue. In principle It was
a good deal like the present Junior
Linotype, but It was rather crude in
Its operation. It was operated en
tirely by hand, atad its extreme
capacity would not have equaled the
output-of more than, two hand com
positors at best. He sold his pat
ents to the Mergenthaler Linotype
and since that time has been at
head of the experimental department
of that great company. Although
the greater part of his time has
been devoted, with Philip T. Dodge,
the president of the Mergenthaler
Linotype Company, to improving the
construction and increasing the ver
satility of the standard Linotype,
yet he has always had a warm spot
in his heart for his original idea.
He realized, however, that a one
letter, hand-operated, semi-automat
ic composing machine was but iT
make-shift at its best, and so, a
bout seven years ago, the first Ju
nior Linotype was completed in the
factory of the Mergenthaler Linotype
Company, and was a direct- descen
dant of his original machine. It
was, to be sure, a one letter ma
chine, but was power-driven and au
tomatic in Its casting and distribu
tion. ' * ,
Since those early days the Junior
Linotype has been steadily improved
In construction. Mr. Rogers has
Rpent a great many days in offices
whero Junior Linotypes were in op
eration under various conditions and
*
from his keen observation has been
enabled to develop the machine to
me^t those conditions in a way
which has proved to be satisfactory;
to tfc.e users and to the manufac
turer. f ?
Mr. Rogers, in his toiir of obser
vation of smaller newspaper offices
before mentioned, lemked among
other things that the majority of
publishers wanted a machine which,
In casting and distribution,. wbuld
bo not only automatic, but which
would eet both the small headings
in black faar*snri the bbdy matt<
In Roman from one set of mat
rfcee. Ttoie lr what Is meant by a
two-letter machine. Such la the
machine which la In our office to
Since February, 1, 1908, more t han
4 0'0 Junior Linotypes have been
Bold and installed. It is (ho only
machine within the means of the
country publisher which iu power-1
driven and which carrier four al- I
phabetB?upper and lower case:
itoi)iau and upper and lowur- ua?e i
black letter?on one set of matrices,
at the inutant command of the op
erator from a keyboard of sevonty
eight keys.
The one in our dffice in driven by
a gasoline engine. The metal Yroni
which the slugs are cast and from
which thin issue of The Chronicle
la printed is houted in the t ruclble
of the machine b.. ni.M.itj o! a gaso
iine burner.
The Junior Linotype produces fin
lulled matter of the highest quali
ty, and permits the face or style of
type to be changed at will. Either
of these fonts 1b at the inst'ant
command of th6 operator. He can
change from one to the other at
will. All that is necessary is the
shifting of a lever. The operator
can read and correct his matter as
he proceeds before a line is cast.
Any person of Intelligence can, in a
reasonable tlmo, become a good op
erator, his progress, of course, be
ing dependent upo*0, careful and
persevering effort.
The Junior Linotype is known to
day in every state in the union, and
in many foreign countries.
It is not a type-setting machine j
in the ordinary sense of the word?
on the contrary. It is a machine |
which, being operated by flnger
keys like a typewriter, creates or
produces type matter made for use
on the press. It produces and as
sembles side by Bide metal bars or
slugs, each slug the measure de
sired. and having on the upper edge
the type character to print an en
tire line. These bars, having the
appearance of^ type and answering
the same purpose, are called "lino
types."
When the slugs or linotypes are
assembled side by 'side, they con
stitute Jointly a "form**, composed
of ordinary typo and adapted to bo
.used in the samo manner. After be
ing used, the linotypes are returned
to the melting pot of the machine
to be recast into new lines, thus
doing away with type distribution.
Each matrix hangs on a wire, and
AN AGED CAMDEN LADY
DIED LAST SATURDAY
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MHS, NKIiHON
A WAV AT IUPH OLD A<?K.
WAS AN INVAIJI).
Mrs. Rebecca Nelson (lied luilt
Saturday morning, June 24, In the
K&tli year of her age. While
had been an invalid for many long
years, tlie end came suddenly and
unexpected and wuu a sorrowful
surprise to the entire community.
Mrs. Nelson was Miss Rebecca
Love. She was born in 1827, and
spent all of her youth and girl
hood on h?r father's plantation 10
miles north of Camden, In 1850
she won married to Mr. Thomas J.
Nelson. Of tbtB union six children
were born. Mr. Neluon was a KfU.
lant Confederate soldier, and died
in the service of the South, whllp
in prison at Point Lookout. After
the war, like many others, she had
a hard (struggle, but she met It
bravely, and commanded the admir
ation and respect of all who knew
her. TIiIb, she never lost through
all her long years of suffering, hut
died as she had lived?honored,
beloved, aud respected by all.
? She was a consistent member Nof
the Episcopal church, though long
since unable to attend. Only one
child survives her ?Miss Rebecca
Nelson, whose devotion and faith
fulness to her mother' never rfaL
tered to the last. She also leaves
thirteen grand children, and ten
great grand children to love and
revere her memory.
"Servant of God. well done;
Rest from thy loved employ;
The battle fought, the victory won
^ Enter thy Master's Joy.
"The voice at midnight came;
She started up to hear;
A mortal arrow pierced her frame
She fell, but felt no fear.
"The pains of death are past;
Labor and sorrow cease;
And life's long warfare closed at
last, ?
Her soul is' found in peace.
"Soldier of ChrlBt," well done;
Praise be thy new employ;
And, while eternal ages run,
Rest. In thy Savior's Joy."
the matrices aro used in rotation
(is ihe machine Is' operated. When
a key If depressed, a nuitrlx bear
ing a character corresponding to
that on the keyboard Is released
from the storage wires. The mat
rices are assembled one by one,-and
whenever a space Is desired, the op
erator touches the space-bar, which
releases a spaceband. These space
hands are wedge shaped strips of
steel which drop Into their places
between the words?the thin end
In the line of matrices and the thick
end projecting down bolow the line
After the lino is assembled, the
operator pulls a lever which causes
the line of matrices to be released
from the assemblage and pass on
to a position in front of the mold
Here the spaceband or steel wedges
are forced upward and into the
(Continued on last page.)
AGRICULTURAL TRAIN TO
s COME TO OUR COUNTY
KXI*KliT? in (HAIUJK TO CJIVftS
V.lM'AliMC DKMONhIKV.
IION8 ON KAI(MIN(i.
Tho Clomson College train will ho
In Camden, Thursday, July tith, and
every farmer who lb IntereHted In
improved methods and better live
Stock Hhould make an effort to
upend the day In the- ?? 11y and at
tend the lectures to ho delivered
by the meotberH of the Clemson fae
\ilty who will have charge of tho
train. A few hours spent In this
way may bo worth hundreds of dol
lars to the farmer who |? seeking
for the bettor and more -profitable
way of doing lilu work.
In speaking of the visit of tho
train to Columbia the Ileeord of
that city ban tho following to Hay:
"The Clemson-Wlnthrop demon
stration train in its stop In Colum
bia Saturday has shown a great
many valuable tlilngH to thoHe that
visit the earn, not the least valua
ble of which Is the Hplrlt In which
tho work Ih crarled on. There 1b
no Idea of making tho train an
exhibit of which the collegoH % are
doing, but to give to the rural dls
trlctH some real educational domon
strations. Only bucIi apparatus Ih
carried as will accrue to this ond.
The whole Is pitched on an inteuBe
ly practical scale.
"The live stock experts, on the
CleniHon cars show tho cattle, point
ing out In loctures the good and
bad points of tho animaln at hand.
One of the cars Is given over to
the stock; there are three typen of
cattle, the dairy, beef and dual pur
pOBe Htock. The Jersey and Holfi
teln for milk and beef, which Ib
the cow for the average small farm
er. The specimens on the car are
particularly flnej the pair of Poled
Angus calves having attracted wide
attention. Tho pair of Purcherou
mares, weighing 1,650 and 1,710
pounds, are Intended to show the
type best for tho rearing of good
farm mules. The animals are all
a show ?from the artistic stand
point, exhibiting what Robu Bon
heur sought and admired.
"The corn in exhibited by Mr. J.
N. Napier. He tells how tho seed
should be selected w Ifli reference
to Its producing and brooding qual
ities, and exhibits classes of the In
sects that are tho greatest enemies
to the farmer. A farmer's library
of some forty practical bookn of
reference Is d! feature In ono of
the seven cars.
"Dr. D. N. Barrow is in charge
of the train. This 1b tho first train
of Its kind over run in the South,
for instead of making 4 or 5'
stops a day, it sta^s a whole 12
hours at ono plaeo and really teach
es Associated with Dr. Harrow
are l)r. E. Harnett, Prof. J. N. Bur
geaaf Prof. Archibald Smth, and
Mr. Word of the Southern railway
who, as the company's live stock
agent Is interested In the work of
tl>e train.
"Miss Hyde, In charge of the
Winthrop exhibit, Is trying with
her twp assistants, graduates of
Winthrop, to do for tho women
what Prof. Barrow 1b for tho men.
Easier methods of housework, more
system as lightening tho dally load,
economy In labor and in material
things ? the brightening of the
home by removing all that is un
necessary Is tho purpose of the
Winthrop demonstration. Utensil
are shown and UBed beforo the eyes
of the audience, the most Improved
methods of cooking, etc., are dwelt
on in talks by Miss Hyde.
"Dr. Barrow Is genuine In hl8
Praise of the railroads that have
so much aided in tho work. They
have afforded cars and crews and
?peclal transportation ? tho South
ern crew has been with the train
now for two weeks and Dr. Bar
row can not say too much to their
credit as making the work possi
ble."
MASS MEETING OF CITIZENS
To DiscOsi Municipal Ownership of
Water and Light*.
A mass meeting of the oltlsens
ot Camden will be held at the
Court House on Monday night next,
June 26th, to dlseuiis municipal own
?*shlp nrf^rater wrdUfBUT" Mr.
A. J. Sprolss of Greenwood, S. C-,
one of the best authorities on the
?ubjeet In the South, will be present
on thl. oooatton.? l#t mrj.b04i
WST cut ud kur tkU tmpsrtut
"?iPPpaWi
REMARKABLE PROGRESS
OF SOUTHERN PAPERSj
A TIMKIiY A ItTU'l.K AM) A V AI,
IAIU,K Sl'(?(JKHTION |H) Al.
IM'HINKHH MKN.
The Manufacturers' Ueeord, of
Baltimore, Muys:
There la probably no more strik
ing llluat ration of (In; remarkable
progress of the South during It?
?u6t few yearn than the groat chang
which ban taken place in the news
papers of the leading towim and
i'IMoh of that section in that period,
it wan hut a few yearn ago when
there were only 11 few cities in the
South in which the dally newspa
per allowed through their adver
tising columns uh well aa In their
news pages any evidence of great
business activity. In fact, moat of
the newspapers had rather an up
hill fight, because of the lack of
broad advertising by local peoplo.
Today (he situation la entirely dif
ferent. in dozens of towns and
eitiea throughout the South the
newspapers, which have always been
leader* in the upbuilding of the
South, are in tliemaelvea remarka
ble maturations of the vast growth
of business of every kind. Papers
which a few years ago showed but
scanty recognition in their adver
tising pages of the appreciation by
local people of the value of adver
tising, are now crowded with a va
riety and an amount of adyertlaing
indicative of the life and. activity)
of the community. In fact, some
of them are evidently at times al-i
moat, tempted to follow the exam
ple of a commercial paper, once
well known with which thy writer
was acquainted, whoae advertising
grew bo rapidly that one day thoro
appeared at the head of the edito
rial column thia announcement:
"Owing to the great preaa of
advertising matter, all editor
ial matter is omitted from thia
Issue."
In that particular caao the bus
iness manager, and not the editor
was reaponalble for the make-up,
and ho bolieved that the advertise
ments in the paper wero more in
teresting to the public, as well aS
to the publishers, than editorial
stuff. He believed that a business
activity which swamped the columns
of his paper with advertising mat
ter t,o the exclusion from that Is
sue of ull editorials Indicated the
prosperity of the community far beH
ter than anything tho unfortunate
editor might have laboriously writ
ten.
While Southern papers may not
have the opportunity of following
this example, they aro at least ev
ery day becoming more and more
In themselves advertisements of
their communities. The outside
man not familiar with the South,
who picks up a daily or weekly pa
per from any one of its leading cit
ies, will get an Impression about
Southern /business life and activity
that will necessarily have a lasting
effect. It might, indeed, be a good
policy for every business man in
the South, after ho hns read his lo
cal paper, to mall It to some friend
elsewhere. The influence for good
could hardly be estimated. It 1b
quite certain that evory paper sent
from any part of the South to
Northern or Western friends would
be read, and it could not bo road
without creating a now impression
about business activity In tho new
South. If every banking house, for
instance, would make It a rule to
have the dally and weekly papers
which it receives mulled after they
have been read, to its correspond
ents in other sections, taking by
turns tho names on Its list, it would,
find the small postage returned a
thousandfold through a closer ac
quaintanceship and in enlarged bus
iness with its outsido banking
friends. The same is true as to
every other line of business in the
South'. No man is doing business
in that seotlon without having ac
quaintances or correspondents else
where. L*t everyone make it &j
rule to MDd to some outside friend
every copy of hie daily paper which
now goes to the wastebasket after
it has been read. In the aggregate
millions of copies of Southern pa
pers woikld in this way annually
reach people, in ether eeetfoae. The
iMt Is lull; ifcrwlat to the w?
tions of the South would be great.
?r
Misses Nannie Oay, of Kertihaw,
and RoeabeH Withenpoon, of flum
VS2 were Ift- Owadenw#ir?feour%
? ? -
NEWSY COMMUNICATION
FROM ACROSS THE RIVER
<1 I'll) MKTTINti llt'HV IIKPOItK
11.\ W <JOKH INTO ICWKCT,
OTHKH MOWS NOTKH
Blanoy, K. C., J nil** 21.' ?- Well,
Mr. Kdlior, wo were Uot dead but
sleeping. Now, since a serious
drought luts been broken up l>y re
freshing showers, wo Ihivo awaken
ed, and will lot you hour from our
low II.
We think wo hnve u pleasant and
prosperous little town here. Wo
noto thut there are moiiio good peo
ple casting their lot with ug here.
Several now residences have been
hullt recently which are now all oc
cupied. Homo, of our merchants say
they ure doing moro business than
they have ever done ut thin houhoii
of the year.
We have 25 square miles hore
to hulld alown upon nad all the
neceutmry facilities to make our
town uh pleasant and desirable as
any town, und wo want more good
uuopio u> come in and join uh.
Wo have a fine church and school
facilities. Hev. A. 10. C. IMttnian,
one of our Baptist intnlHlorH, hold
the attention of a lurgo congrega
tlon hero last Sunday while hu
preachod from <ho text I Cor. 1:18.'
The iiiuhIc was also excellent.
Rev. T. J. Cupstid, another ono
of our Baptist ministers, has gone
to Lexington to hold a meeting
there. May his efforts ho crow nod
with SUCCOSH.
Our farmers have their erops in
the very hont condition to\ receive
the refreshing showers. The crops
both cotton and corn that came up
when first planted are looking well,
and are unusually large consider
ing the drought and the season of
the year.
F. W. Watson reported a cotton
bloom on his-farm on the 19th.
? Mr. N. C. Nelson aays ho wants
to take tho cake on cotton around
Bluney this year, but ho had bet
ter keep his eyes on Mr. Howell.
Wo had a pleasant drive last
Sunday with Bonnie Cooper. Ilo
has a turnout second to none in
Blaney.
Mrs. Hilton is visiting relativos
In tho eastern portion of tke coun
ty.
Mrs. Fannie Moore is visiting re
latives in Fairfield.
Mrs. Eliza Branham, of Camden,
after a long and serious illness,
died on tho 12th inst. The funeral
services wore conducted by the Bap
tist minister in Camden and her
body Intorrod in tho Ebenozer cem
etery in Wost Wateree.
"When wo asunder part,
It gives us inward pain,
But wo shall still be joined in
hoart,
And hope to meet again."
I guess some of the young peo
ple are somewhat Impressed with
some of the now actay passed by
our last legislature, 'For instance
the marrlago liconso law.
On the 4th inst at the Notary's
offifio in Blaney, was married Wll
llo White, of Blaney to Maggie Kel
ley, of Camden.
On the 18th inst., the, rumbling
noiso of wheels in the distance
broko tho silence at the Notary's
offico, bringing tho bride and groom
and a host of friends to witness
the marriage of MIbb Cynthia Watts,
one of Blaney 'a brightest and pret
tiest young ladies, to M?lvln Bran
ham, one of our brightest young
men. ?
On tho 20th inst, Addie Jacobs,
of Columbia, was happily married
to J. W. Qrlffin, of Jacops.
Our best wishes go out with the
newly marriod couples. May their
livoH bo long upon this oarth, and
may tholr pathway through life bo
strewn with many of the brightest
flowers.
"I^ove in so sweet,
When Uko a fetter,
To love a Bweet maid,
And then to wed her." _
Schedule of Appointments,
We have received tho following
schedule of appolntmonts and tho
names of committeemen to Ar
range for meeting of the leading
organizer of the State Farmers'
Union, J. B. O. Holloway ,at the
pmcog named in Kershaw county.
It is desired that as many farm- -
erg as possibly can attend these
meetings. AH meetings at 4 p.
m., ynless otherwise Indicated:
Friday, June 23, Cleveland 8. H.
?E. A. Brown, Camden, No. 1.
Saturday, "June "24, Mt. Zion
church Jno. S. Brown, Camden,
No. 2.
Monday, June 26, Bethune? J.
W. Hebron, Bethune.
Tuesday, June 27, Abnejr?TF. M.
Klrkley, Kershaw, No. 4.
Wednesday, June 28, Kersteaw?
T. 8. Bell, Kershaw.
ThWfday, June 29, C. C. <???J
8. Barfleld, Kershaw,No. 1.
Friday, June 30, Shaylor HlU-rr?
Saturday, July, 1 .Cemden?Re
organisation of County Union, 11
a. m.
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