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EIGHT PAGES This Week The Camden Chronicle A WtH'kly Worth Wlilh*. VpI^UMM XXIII. * ; OAMDKN, MOUTH CAKOIJNA, AVUUMT 11, 1?11. Nl'MUKH Ift. SSffiE- :"^>? , . ? -v. 'J . r' ?::???. ?;.? ^ ' ? ???''.* - \ itkLj-' * ^ ' ' ? ? ? - ? ? ? ? . ? '? ? - ?: ? ' ' ' ? " ' -??.l-'lJ ??.... - . ?- '..ej ?.JU? ?-'.'.?WU.IIBU ".'.'Jl ?" '? ' I.'" "i J' I-.U"U' Mamy Are Patronizing Our Job Printing Department. Why Not You ? ? r PRESBYTERIAN PASTOR PREACHES FINE SERMON C4>.NUItK?ATION QV THK DANUKHH OF NOMINA!, t'liriti'H mi:mih;kh. In u powerful sermon last Hui/ day^ Rev. JoHHt* C.. Itowau, pastor j ?f fho Caro^Ptwbyterlan church, -told of the grout curno to the churcW of lt? nominal or unconverted mem bor?- His text wa? from Luke |4th chapter uud 31st verso; "What 'n^'. B?lng to make war with an ther king, Bltteth not down first, *.^ttl,d cV,,HU'teth whether he be able With tel. thousand to meet film thai cometh against him with twenty louaund." Miv Rowan said: If there in one elas? of men that We should pray Uod to deliver hie vchurch from today, it is that class which we denominate nominal church members-- unconverted peo ple In the church. I vorlly be Hovo that a dozen men, who havo never openly confoHsod Christ at S4ra,l, do -the cause of Christianity far '4 loss ,^ani{ige than a single nominal Christian* When you hear a person ?. utalde the churc.i making light of t?<c habit of prayer, you simply aay *!iat he is a blasphemous person and pass on. Iiut, oh, what a dl? ferent impression it makes to hear a church member doing this! "Jesus Christ did not wish any man to follow him ljghtly and In considerately He did not desire nominal followers. So 'ho turned around and counselled the great - multitude that followed him to first "count the cost." He counsel ed them to consider well the ene ^"ios that opposed them. 'What king,' said he, 'going to make war with another king, sltteth not down first, and consulted whether .he be able with ten thousand to meet him that, cometh ngainst him with twenty thousand?' "Josus plalniy and distinctly told them that It costs something to be a christian- ? far more than the most of them wore willing to pay. He told them that a christian has foes to face and meet. "My purpose today is to ask you , to consider the foes that we have' to face in this world as christians, and whether -we can with our own t?ower overcome them. And 1{ not, to ask you to turn to the resources which aro offered In Christ Jesus, our Lord, "Now, if we -would be true disci Pies of Christ; If we would be 'sol diers of the cross,' what foes must we meet and overcome, or be con quered by them? Suppose we let ,.the word of God name them. "It calls one of them 'the world.' Now what Is the 'world?' We oft en say that a man Is a worldly man. What 1b the significance of .that term? .Too often when we use it we refer to something a man , does or leaves undone. Men fre quent the theatre and play cards, and they are termed worldly; and people who abstain from these things are labelled unworldly. Now I attx not defending these things, ?,?t I do not think .that covers it in the slightest degree. Worldli ness is not in doing this or leav ing that .undone. Worldliness is lrt the spirit; It is the atmosphere of -the soul. It is the spirit of -' the horizontal. It Is the spirit of the level with no" peaks of experience, rising heaven ward. Worldliness looks on and out, but It never looks up and prays. It is ambition not aspiration. Its motto Is forward, never upward. Its goal is success, never holiness. Its chief end ,1? to glorify self, not Ood. Worldliness 1^. life without the plumb?without the upward calling 4n Christ Jesus, our Lord. The man who looks on and out to the level end, wjio,haa np aspiration, no Heavenly vision, no prayer would be termed by thai Master "of the world, worldly. "Another enemy ^rhich we have to face and meet la the fleah?not the carnal power of the body, but the carnal power of the body expressing itself . in ' vanity pride. The flesh that crushes the soul and rides it in atead of the soul's dictating the morements of the flesh. We have the flesh to meet. -Another enpmy which we have to ? face , li fbe devil? What Is the ~ Who is th* deril? *He is sir.' Tho devil down not spring up on ub like a tiger. ILe' comes into your Ufte and mine hh noiselessly ub tho cool hours of the morning and leU down the temperature. lie cornea a* 'the fcrince of the power of the air' and lowers the, moral at moBpliyiH, you were just praying earueytly J^nd suddenly you exper j^ced w a chill. You Questioned: WlftU is the use? ' It wan 'the priufce of the power of the air." You istart out to live a clean life uud before you know It your fervoufl 1b chlllod and you have returned to the filth an a "dog returns to his vomit." It la the "prince of the power of tho air." Wo have the devil to meet. ''What shall we do with these enemies? The gospel tollB ub three things. It sayB that tho Lord , can dual with the past, the present and the future and change them all. "It says that we can bo forgiven. The word translate^ 'forgiven' wub a^ fisherman's word. Whon Potera' bont was fasteuod to land with a rope, he would call to his partner and toll him to loose tho boat and set her free. Tho word hero used by the apostle was the word used by Christ when he said 'forgiven.' Whon a man sins he is robbed of his place. Christ cuts tho ropo and sets the victim free. There is another yord used. 'I will wash >ou.' This Is not the word used In rnlerenco to washing hands but tho won' used In reference t<> wushing clothes .?- tho uncleunness washed right out. This washing is not a washing 'off' or 'over,' it is a wash ing 'through. While it Is a "spir itual washing' It is a 'sanitary wash lng.' Then the Bible says that the kord will tako our. sinB and put them 'behind his back.' Where is that? it is whert> no man "lias ovor been or can ever be. v "So much for the past. ? What will the Lord do wtth the present? What do I need now? I nood strength. That is precisely what the Bible offers to the man who turns to Christ Jesus. Whenx a man turnB to Christ his tempta tions are not destroyed. They are often multiplied. But something else is increased also,' namely: my power to meet them. The man who turns to Jesus will not be sufi fored by Jesus to bo 'tempted above that ho is able.' "Finally, tho Bible says: 'I can make you triumphant.' - "Tho only way to prove this is to tost it. How can we test it? Wo can test It by faith. What,is faith? Faith is not blind Judge ment. Faith Is more than belief. Some people have mountains of be lief who haven't the faith of u grain of mustard seed. "Belief is mental, faith Is volitional." Be lief is the beat, faith takes the voyage. Belief Is the confidence that the 'gang plank'- is strong; faith goes- across. 'Belief is leg islative, faith is ad'miniBtrative.' You can not have falth\ without the action and progress of th<\ soul. If you turn to Christ for delivery from 'the world, the flesh and the devil' you must give Christ your will." OPENS BRANCH OFFICE. Carolina ^Casualty Company To Use Savage Building. The Carolina Casualty Company has recently opened a branch office In Camden, and are now getting ' In shape to do a larger business for the company here.-. The business is in charge of Mr. W. R. Driver, a hustling Insurance man, formerly of Charleston, who has been with the company for the past six years. In speaking of his coming to Cam den Mr. Driver says his company re cognizes Camden as one of ' the very best towns in South Carolina, hence they will increase their force to three men in the course of sev eral weeks. Mr. Driver is a pleas^ ant gentleman and is making friends for himself and gaining patrons for his company. 1 '[* ' ' i~ i- -1 Doing Well in Florida. The many tfamdon friends of Mr. John P. Jenkins were glad to Me him here for a few days thisweek. John went to Florida where he was awarded a large government con tract for plumbing. After complet ing the ^ob he liked Florida set well he decided to make It his home. He has recently completed several large contracts in that slate and is meet* log with mwca *uoomm la this busi HOW MRS. CARRIE NATION WORKED ATLANTA PAPERS HHKN HIIK KIN1IE1) FIHHKI> WIIKKK FIH1IKH WKltU.? MADK Hl<4 MONKY. II,? uetlvltloH or Mrs. Carrie Na on while lecturing In v.udevllle ualro In Atlanta several yours ugo Z rocou"l?d In an Interesting wtty * John M. (Iregory, her to??^ Pre? agent, l? ?? interview ,he York Mr. Gregory an <> d Atlantan, managed the pu'bllcl M I MrH' Ntttlo"'M ?ngagements the old El, Dorado, and framed L^TT1' * ttat which ni* ? 1,1 thu nowspa ? 8- HIh Interview wan rendered Notion ^ th? re?ent deHth ?f Mr8 '.'The two dominant features of ina:r G Nation's character were dia metrically opposed," says Mr. Tlreg mh OM t,l? ?ne H,(,? wnH the cr?" nan*', \ l0U<l0r' the fettrle?? fa natic boldly defying the world, gree y for money and seeking the beat niothod fon getting it, alive to the ?luo of advertising and quick to Hap the dramatic and sensation ill. ?' ?n the v?tho1' hand wan her sim-i P 0.motherly character, as lovable <h that of any woman I hnve over nown. Somotimes she would make one wonder how ahp. could" be the termagant she waa. She rarely re lerrod to her smashing lour,, and when she did ll was ?,th K q?let ttle laugh, her gray eyea spark ling and her flat clenched as she would describe how the men would f oe out of the saloop by. the rear door when she entered the front. The waste,J the lnujstlce, the crim 8lde. of her actions, never en tered her head. Many of Carrie Nation's sensa tional deeds were inspired by hor Proas ngonts or the- press agent8 the theatres in which during a few years she worked. She was (-en, too, in making her contracts, received from $260 to $1,000 a week for lectures at theatres and a ways with the privileges of soli ng in the lobby her little gold latchet pins and the history of her Hfe. This privilege would net her ? 100 to $260 a week extra. "The first work I did for her was as press agent for a theatre in ?a- The house waB putting on sensational piay<r at p0pUian Prices and Carry Nation was signed or two 20-mlnute lectures each day, /or which she received $500 for the week with the usual lobby .privi es. The house manager chose Ten Nights In a Bar Room' for thQ weeks production and Mrs. Na tion's profits -for the period amount-1 ed to nearly $1,000.. "In spite of the money* she made" she refused absolutely to stop at u | first class hotel. She preferred ra her to go to a cheap place because she said, she needed her money I more than the hotel keepers did. "Not a single suggestion made by me with a view to making her 8 ay in Atlanta more sensational I was rejected by her. - She arrived Sunday night and oarly Mondavi morning began her crusade. - There was a big advertisement for clgar etts In a drug stoere window in the! center of the city In which a man1 made up to represent a manakln' with electric wires attached smok ed cigarettes. I suggested that Mrs. Nation pull him out of the window' backward. "Of course there was a big lot of people In front of the window and the little woman saw her first chance for a sensation. She march ed determinedly Into the store, and stopped In the center and began a tirade against cigarette smoking. "Then, when the store became crowded with people she went to the window, opened the back of It, CMped-the performer Inside by the \scruff of the neck and yanked him to the floor. The manakln waa bo surprised that he became gavanized ..Into the liveliest lay (IgureB imagln abel and the t^rowd roared. The neit day tht window waa empty, and remained so for the rest of her stay In Atlanta. I suggested to her that Qover nor Hoke Smith waa an inveterate smoker. -I. her Weir, left go lo ' ?ee him eh* aaid. ifn make n,ws t Paper talk, won't It?"-J , ? iejtok^flmlth'. but tliHt gentleman wiih loo uhrowd for Mrs. Nation,. Ho recognised her when who opened bin door without being' announced unci immediately throw his cigar into u cuspidor. Mrs. Nation wan satisfied to give him a mild reprimand, and we loft for more fertile fields. '"Down to thu police station the little woman marched, followed by a crowd, which Jeered and laughed at her. When wo went lnt<j the sta tion tho chief was seuted at bin desk and smoking a l>ik blnck cigar. Mis. Nation went up to him, grasp ed the cigar and crushed it in her hand. 'ljou't you know you are smoking yourself into hell?" Hiie screamed, Then she lit into the chief and gave liiin the warmest ten mlnutcH he hud exprleenced for some'time. ? ? "Of course the newspapers wero full uf M in. Nation'H doings, and none could lie more pleased at the publicity than she. She would got out on the streets at 7 o'clock in the mornliiK and work until tho inat lne?\ I asked her once why she did it. 'It's good advertising, son,' she smiled. 'It gels the people In to the theatre and we need the mo ney.' "Mrs. Nation cleaned nearly $160, 000 from her lectures in churches and theatres. Hho would refuse, however to go to a church if a theatre made her a better offer. A minister once upbraided her for thiH, but she snapped him up with, 'When I fjsh 1 go where the fishe* are.' She died leaving an estate of only $10,000. All the money sl\e made had gone to the support of tracts and various prohibition pa pers. "' GOOD ROADS TRAIN WILL SPEND FEW HOURS HERE SOUTHERN RAILWAY'S SPECIAL TRAIN WILL ENTER STATE ON SEPTEMBER 4TII. Washington, L>. C.,. Auk. #??The Hpe<_l^i ' lr... mc... Tr ln;li:g operated by (>hj Southern Ry., the AugiiHta Southern Railroad anil affiliated llneH In co-operation with the United States Office of Public Roads, will commence Kb tour of South Carolina and Georgia Sep tember 4. It will spend practically a month In South Carolina making exhibitions at points along the Southern Railway, and on Septem ber 29th will enter Georgia to visit points along the Augusta Southern Railroad. ? The "Road Improvement Train" la being sent out by the Souhthern Railway to further the movement for better wagon roads throughout the South and at the same time to give practical information to far mers and road officials as to the building of roads and thelt* repair. The appointments for Camden, Lancaster and Sumter are as fol lows; Sept. 18, Monday, Lancaster, 10 a. m.? .Camden, 3 p. m. Sept. 19, Tuesday, Sumter, 1:30 P- m. Free lectures and demonstrations j showing the Importance of good roads and how to build them and keep them In repair at the smallest necessary cost will be conducted at each stop by two road building ex perts of* the United States Depart ment of Agriculture, Messrs. L. E. Boykln and H. S. Fairbanks, assist ed by a representative of tho Land & Industrial Department of the Sout ern Railway. Two coaches of the train are filled Mth exhibits, pic tures and working modols, and the lectures are Illustrated with stere optlcan views. At great oxpense the Southern Railway and affiliated lines vj^e handling this train with out charge to the government in or der, that the people along Its lines may have the opportunity to re ceive the valuable Information as to road building which It affords. Down to the Rind. A grocery salesman entering a store found the place In charge of the delivery boy. >Upon being ask ed wheTe the proprietor was, the boy replied: "I am the whole cheese here." The traveling departed, leav ing a note for the proprietor, which the boy promptly opened. "Permit me to suggest," it read, yon ar? nearly-ont of cbeeee." LARGE CROWD IN ATTENDANCE AT THE BIG FRATERNAL PICNIC OOVNTY AND CITY l'K01*ijC| ClATHKIt AT IIAMHON PAltK FOli PLKA8ANT DAY. HAND Ml'HlC AND HPKKCHKN. Picnic day has come and gone. The great gathering of Friday, Aug-1 nst 4tli is now a tlai 11 k <>f history, and one pforo red letter day has hoen added to Camden's already long list. Heavy ruinn fell early III the day and dark threatening1 clouds hover?*d over the city for sov~j era! hours, until for u time things looked gloomy for the picnic. w By ten o'clock, howeovr, the skies were j ?dear and hundred!) tyogun pouring into Camden from all directIoiih; in a few bourn f*? 1 ly 2500 houIh had arrived to avail themselves of the opportunity for a good time. There would doubtless have been more! had the weather been less unfavor able. ? . The speakers of the day were carefully chosen, and bctdde furnish ing entertainment for those who had assembled to hear them, gave good wound instruction -on their va i'Iouh lliemeH. The Columbia Concert Band was secured to furnish music during the day as the Jefferson band which ha been previously engaged could not be In attendance on aeoount of the death of one of its members. Dur ir.? the morr lng many musical num '"ts wove rendered by the .Columbia nni.>'i tans oa the streets, and in the afternoon a game of ball between Camden and Cheraw furnished the amuHcinenL for hundreds. At 12 o'clock the band marched to Hampton Park, which by cus tom seems to have become the reg ular picnic ground. A stand hud boon erected in the, middle of the park and from here the addressee were delivered. Air. C. VV. Birch more, acting in the capacity of chairman, introduced the various speakers. The exorcises were opened with a prayor by th? Ilev. Mr. J. C. Itowan, after which Mr. 13. B. Ciarke was introduced as tho first speaker. Mr. Clark represented the Frater nal Union of America. In speaftin;: of that order, its purposes and its] Ideals, he told also of the purpose and advantage of fraternal organlza-] tions in general. The Hon. T. O. MoLood, of liiBh opvlllc, representing the Knights of I Pythias was, as is always the case In Camden, enthusiastically receiv ed. Ho told of the origination of that order during the strife between the sections and reviewed its his tory and growth. Col. T. C. Hamer, of Bennetts? vlllo, representing the Woodmen of the World, Explained the advantages) of that order, laying particular stress on its insuranco feature, and tho fact that through the Woodmen life Insurance Is put in tho roach of many who might otherwise not be able to carry it: Solicitor W. Hampton Cobb spoko next for the Odd Follows. He re viewed soiut-Uiing of the hlBtory of this order, telling of its wonderful charities and tho great gpod which it has d?ne, and is still doing among tho widows and orphans. Tho last speaker was the Hon. M. L. Smith, representing the Ma sons. As usual his address was teeming with thought. He told of tho antiquity of tho Masonic order,! aril and of its universality. He spoko | also of the wonderful way In which it has withstood attack throughout] the ages, which has resulted at va rious* times from the prejudice, against secret orders. At the conclusion of Mr. Smith's | address dinner was announced. The long- table which had been ] built for the purpose fairly croak ed under tho weight of apetizing eatables. The ladies had been call ed on to furnish baskets and they had responded nobly. There was everything desirable and plenty of It. .Several hundred heavily laden baskets were furnished and no one went away hungry. Mr. J. P. Bate man chairman of tlr*-table commit tee deserves all possible prats* for the successful arrangexnei nt could not oomo off on account of <ho bild condition of the streets re sulting from the heavy rains. Thin wan u disappointment to litany, Full' street having been previously got ten into .condition for thy purpose. After dinner, however, tho Kershaw Guards, together with several ml? iiatlainun from Columbia, who had been Invited oyer for the day, en tertained the crowd with a sham hat tie. The drill wan well execut ed und proved a fine form of on tertaiumeut. Hundreds turned out lo the game of ball between Camden and Cheraw In the afternoon. Orand*-> stand and bloachers were filled and all avalluhle space was occupied b> vehicle's. In fact the great crowd reminded one of old State League times. From a Htaudpoiut of real buHehull it wiih a swatfest, pitchers being changed often. Camden won however, and thut'H the principal thing after all. it wiiH a great day for Camdeu and all oommlttoos deserve credit for the success of the occasion. The crowd wiih well behaved all throughout the day and drunken ness wan nowhere in ?>vidonco. llAVIv(JI'KNKl> AN ANN10X linruch - Nettles Company Branch* 1 it 14 Out with New Department. Realizing tho need of an ?*xcliiHive clothing and gent's furnishing store i in Camden, Baruch-Nettles Com pany, have opened an annex in the ik.omj formerly occupied by the Cntn der. Mllllmafcy Co. These young men I are both adepts in tlie art of se | lectlng choice lines of goods <\>r ; both old and young, and they intend to put in a line so that when a "hard to please customer" comes In j ho will not have to go to Columbia | or Charleston to make a selection, I thereby kouping kis-fcioyyy ^at-hom^ They intend to give you the right goods at the right prices and are bidding for your patronage on the merits of tho goods they sell. In enlarging their business they have also increased their advertis ing space In The Chronicle and tell you more about what they intend to do in a half page ad olsowhero than wo can. Read It and see, Aged Colored Couple Marry. Daniel Coleman, aged 78 and Molllo Furgusou, aged 7 0, colored, who resido In tho southeastern part ?of the county, were married iji tho Probate office last Saturday morn ing. Tho ceremony Was performed by the Probate Judge. Their 11 -censo was No. 8. South Carolina Takes Third Place. Tho total value of farm lands and buildings in the South In 1910 approximated $6,300,000,000, of which the $ 1,823,000,000 of Texas was nearly 28 per cent. Florida ranked first in the rate of Increase in the value of farm lands In ten years, it being: 203 per cent, with Texas second, 173 per cent; South Carolina third, 160 per cent; Geor gia fourth, 166 por cent, and North Carolina fifth, 141 per cent. Flori da led, too, In the rate of increase In tho value of farm buildings, 144 per cent, with Georgia second, 142 por cent; Sonth Carolina third, 137 per cent; Texas fourth, 109 per cent, and Arkansas fifth, 109 por cent. The rates of lncreaso, 36 per cent, in the value of land and 4 2 per cent in the value of build ings in Maryland, were tho smallest in any Southern state.? Manufac turer's Record. Jerry'? Record in Danger. Greenville, S. C., Aug. G.? That a Greenville county corn club boy stands a splendid chance of raising the champion acre of corn In the states, If not In the South, and therefore eclipsing the record of Jerry Moore, was tho opinion voic ed today by Clemson College ex pert* and Senator B. R. Tillman. \ Special Agent, C. B. Haddon, of Clemson College, Senator Tillman and other parties made a trip to day In the upper section of Oreen the purpose of ih ACfe Of corn being