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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE r?bii?b*d Every VtUUf ?>. -/?"?" J . m i W. L. McUOWEiX Pr<*rM?r H. D. NILE# m.ut B. N. McDOWUX PubU-k*f. ? '? . ir.u. g.'j-i'.Tr.'? : ^ r.aUft^M *????< ?Um miI mIUi *( iIm r?uMk( ?! IIOU N. Ifaoiul 01, . Tiiom- tfV ( uiimIi-k, H. V., Hepl. JM>, 1911. 1 1 . !.. .1 .. ? ! " TKV IT Help n brotker Oil lit* way, - Give it lifting band today, Hay the kindly word of cheer, Help te dry the mourner's tear, When you've done a kindness real, Bee yourself how good you feel. Do you meet a fellow down, Do not greet him witk a frown; Do not turn awuy in acorn, ?lrip his hand and'srty "(loud morn! Try hlit little wounds to heal, Hee yournelf iiow geod you feel. There's uo Joy compared to this, Warth can we'er bestow sUOh bits*, Help another on his way, Jiave a cheerful word to nay, Then when evening shadows steal, Wee yourself how good you feel. ,-r Hucred Heart Review. Say "NO" next Thursday. / Municipal ownership means a sav ing of |ll,oOu or more each ''year to the city on water and light rentals. At the end of twenty years, uiider municipal ownership, the actual amount saved the city 'on water and flight h, will hu between $i?m,ouo and I Y 5,009. ' * Under the expert uMiuageinont, 'which It would have, the Water and Ugh t plant would not only he a sav I iik to the city, hut will prove a pay tug InveHtinent. One argument which In being used against municipal ewuershlp Is that "it Is risky.'1 If the Water and Ugl* Plant will make money for h corporation, Why will it not do the name for the City? What are you doing for your town? If you have no confidence in the growth and improvement of the town and .country In which you live how on earth do you expect other people tv> move among you and-caus the country to develop und grow for yt ur benefit. In any city whero the majority or lis citlzenu are ktmo ownerK, one 'A 111 find pretty hotneu and happy ftMlufied people. They are always ou the alert for the best Interest of the town and Its moral welfare.' Whero this Is not so, such nil Inter est l? not displayed. Would It not bo a good plan for all the Judges, of both the Supreme and Circuit Court, who arc candi date! for the Chief Justiceship, to follow the example of Chief Ju*tlc Jones and resign the positions the> hold before becoming candidates Tor i> not her office?- ? Sumter Watch man and Southron. With the juries acquitting as ma ny us they do in South Carolina, It (U)lh seers that a man who will plead guilty is ci assy.- Greenville l?iedm6nt. Give the Juries credit for belni economic. They believe In at lenst uaviitg the cost of conveying pris oners to the "p?n."* What's the use? '{temporarily restraining the State board of education from lntroduc? l?g In the public schools of the State the series of readers* ordered from I). C. Heath Co.. Judge John S. Wilson has Issued an ordwr citing the board of education to show cause why the court should no grant the relief asked by the II. F. Johnson company, the petitioner. The rulo to allow cause was made returnable October 2. The order for the disbanding of the local militia company has brought ho" many expressions of con fidence an?l sympathy- to the edi tor of the Times that It Is worth all that It will bo to him, to be _.|nustered out in tko way In which 4t was done. It Is almost as great as hearing ones ?wn funeral sermfen preached, and we know that when our funeral nermen Is preached; -us It Is bound to be is ily> course of fiutnan events, there are golrig to be some good things said of us. ? Flotenco Times. Thanks to our appreciative read ers , for their many kind remarks, we We being compllmontod dally on the paper we are getting out. A letter received from a subscriber a few days ago, ordering tk? Chroni cle sent to a relative, says: "YOu are now siring us an excellent pa ? Par,}* We appraolata these words of CompaendAUon, *nt It shall ever be our aim to .giro the ?*>ple of Ker ahaw W JCwclir worth *WHy JONKH <>AN*T DSFKAT IBLVAiK, Chief Justice Ira 1). J one#, or V1** *tat* supremo court, has *ent In hi* resignation to take effect in January when he will outer the raee |or governor of Mouth Carolina, ill* prevent position he could have held as long a* he lived, if he cared to, and the salary W? the *ame an that of governor. Mr. Jone? will he overwhelmingly defeated, and there ?rd several rea *oas why he will he. Flr*t; it it* customary io give a governor two terms. Mecond: He enters the field because he is Uloajte'a personal as well aw politi cal enemy. Third: lie wan pulled in the raee by the Gonzale* and the nowspapora of the state, and the common people of Houth Carolina yill not atand for a newspaper can didate. Fourth: lie ha* been out of politic* for Hi year* and i* out of date and can't "come' t hack." Fifth: llo belong* to the arlsto cratlc crowd, which no longer rule Houth Carolina, Hlxth: lie i* not a mixer and doeH not know 'the need* arid coudltlon* of the people - thu whole people. Heventh; He ia the corporations' candidate and the farmer and the laboring man are not going to hand him a knife to cut their throats by electing him governor. There are several other reasons why Mr. Jones will no* defeat Gov ernor IHoase, but the above are some of the 'moat. Important. ? An <lcr?on Intelligencer., WHAT IH IUKA8IJ UJT TO NOW? A number of newspaper* have iH'oh featuring article* respecting th rumored Impeachment proceedings against Gov. Hleaae to be brought at the approaching soaslon of the legislature. TIwjbo stories have originated in both Columbia and Atlanta, but it la noticeable that not one of them has beeu fathered by a responsible person. It 1* all rumor and unverified reporta. It "ha* been lut.imated that these Bto rles have been manufactured for the purpose of creating aymputhy fo;r Gov. Hloaso and to enable him to Ko up and down the state ringing the charges on the cry of persecu tion. 1'orhapa this la true, perhaps not, but lt la a fact that the publi cation of these unsubstantial ru nners have the tendency to create 'sympathy for Gov. BlcuRe and are doing hi.m no harm. We take 110 Mock In the rumors and do not en tertain the remotest Idea that an effort to impeach Gov. Blease will bo made. Tho only way we can accouat for the impeachment stories is that . this is thu silly aeaaou f<jr newspaper correspondent#, or that the npnce writers were hard up for * senaatlonal atory to sell to the nowapapera at ho much per column. > Sumter Daily Item. UUMJHMUUlt THK HOME MEK C'H.WT. Now that money will noon bo in plentiful circulation, don't go away from home to spwnd It. Kemein b?#r tho home merchant who has borne the heat and burden of the day with you, and helped you when others did not. ItenuHubor the homo merchant for you may need him again. THK (X)l'NTY FAIR. The Kershaw County Fair, which will bo hold hore this year, promises to bo far better than tho one hold Inst year. Everyone seems to be taking an Interest, and tho mer chants and farmers are all determln ed to spare no effort to make It so. The directors of the association are working hard to provide enter tainment for the thousands of visit ors who will throng the grounds during the three days on which the fair is to be hold, .November 8, 9 and 10, and their efforts bid fair to be crowned with success. in arranging attractions for the Fair wo would suggest that the com mltteo on programme and entertain ment secure an exhibition by an airship as one of the features for the fair. This would be sure to draw a largo crowd every day as the world is anxiously awaiting the practical solution of travel through tho air which those aeronauts are trying to accomplish. ^ A visitor in Barnwell Ibis week, one who had never been -here be fore, remarked bo us that ho was very much surprised with the town; that from the noise it was making in the outside world he judged It to be a live, wideawake place. We assur ed him that it was, and asked why t?e thought to the eontrary. "Well," he remarked, "judging from the con dition In which your streets and public parks are kept the avem&e visitor would not slse this place up as a live, progressive town." We lmxaedlately 'change* the subject. ? Barnwell Sentlael. > ? .f>. . . ? V a* OIU'UANAUV WOliK DAY. For t he ImmI few years the a rleu? orphanages of tl^ Mtate t e united lit askiug the people of |e mate to give the proceed* of ?ae day* labor to the orphans. . l'ke la?t Saturday lu September ha# been set ayar? a* "Work Day," and all, both grown yeoyle uud children, wh fuel Interested In belying the or phane are asked to give that day'a labor or Income to the orpkaaage or their choice. There are about two hundred and fifty oryhaae at the Thorn veil Orphaunge, Clinton, (1'resbyterlau) ; almost as maoy at Cojinie Maxwell, (fiqptiBt) Green wood; two hundred and twenty-five at Ky worth Orphanage, (Methodist) Columbia; and sixty at The Church Homo, (Episcopal) Vo-ivllUe. These orphan children are being clothed, fed and educat* entirely by the gifts of the yeoyl* >.ud it is earnestly hoyed that a eral re sponee will be made to pfilf appeal. J,et nope fail tq send (he wage* or Income of one day's labor to the orphanage of his choice. Make re mlttancee by check# postoi'tire mon ey "order or express to either of the four orphanages named hi v?w. Dr. J. l<\ Jacobs, Clint 8. C. ltev, A. T. Jamison, G '? owood Kev. W. D. Wharton, umbla, The Church Home, Y kville. Saturday next, September 30th, 'will be the annual Work Day for th orphanages. The peaple are willing to provide for the orphaes, and Work Day fixes the time for con cert of action. The purpose is to K've all who will the opportunity to contribute the earnings of. one day of labor, or the Income of one day, to the orphans, and to send their gifts to the orphanage of their choice. Dot. the day be generally observed, and their gifts will be a great blessing to our orphan homes. The children can be employed at some kind of work, and give their earnings to the fatherless. The Ep worth Orphanage will no doubt receive due consideration fror the friends of the two hundred and fifteen little ones who are upder Its care. ^ . W. B. WHARTON, Supt. Epworth Orphanage, Columbia, S. C. tt!X>W WORK. It took a letter twenty-one days fo 'travel 150 feet In- Atlanta by (he post-office route. The letter [Win mailed by a firm known as Law Hrothers to W. J. Mllle of the Atlanta National Bank on August 3 and was delivered on September 20 'rhere was no mistake In the ad dress; no possibility that it might -have beon illegible and not the slightest mark upen the envelope to show that tho postohiee people had experienced any difficulty . in locat ing the man to whom It had been addressed. To all appearances it just naturally took that twenty-one days for the letter to "get where 4t was going. 1' On the front of the letter was stamped Aug, 31, show ing that it was received In "TTTe" poatoffiae on that day. There was nothing to show why it had not bees delivered sooner to the addres see who lived Just 150 feet down t lie same street from the sender. It might be mentioned that num erous other complaints have been filed in the Atlanta office, other letters having been detained as long as a week. Tho officials of tho Atlanta office state that they are. unable to place the blame. If they are not able to, the postoffice de partment ought to be able. Such a service as that is ridiculous. ? , Greenville -Piedmont. A CAMPAIGN KEMINUKK. State political campaigns will soou be on, and then a year later the great national contest will have to bo fought again. "The laborer Is worthy of his hire," and especially If that labor be for a politician who is looking after an easy job and sure emolument.. It ought to be a reminder to all publishers that what Is done for office-seekers should bo lor recompense la dollars and cents, payment in advance, because collec tions are sometimes difficult when coupled with defeat. The publisher in this day and generation that boosts the politician Along the lines ot good wUi?Alpne Is not getting what -tej^ltlmately belongs to his business. ? Western Publisher. GKT MOKE MONEY. Are you satisfied that your pres ent position Is equal to your ability, dr do yo? think you are capable of something bigger? Many a man hangs on to a small position when a little training of the right sort would ahowyhlm just how to make the change to more money and brighter prospects. The first step toward getting better equipped and a better 'position is to write for a catalogue of Dradghon's Practical Business College, at Columbia or QTee&Tllle, 6. C., or Augusta, Oa., or Nashville, fenn. C 'III K AND FINIHHMKM Now sKeln, ?fter #ow? weary mid t. i it ob ill trial, there are iVung peraons or societies lUtng . vehement protest against the law's decree of death upon the particular assaaslu In the toil*. Theee good, but unwise folk present )oug petitions ('Aiuorlug for the abolishment of what they call "capi tal punlehmeut," Woth of these words, tB thin application, are ml* uomers. Capital punishment does not necessarily mean punishment by ?death. It meaua the heaviest sen tence under the code. "Punishment too, In a misused word, for the im posing of the penalty U not suppos ed to be punitive, but deterrent and corrective. The criminal who ha? forfeited hie right to life or liberty verves hie last useful purpose to society In being held up as a proot ' hat the law still holds. The mosl grievous wrong that could be Inflicted upou civilized ?9* ciety In the protection of the crlmin al-*-ln particular, the murderer ^gainst the Just decree of the law. They who maintain that the state ha* no right to take human life, or, they mlscal It, "evenge," forget that the felon himself has usually forfeit ed that olalm by his crime. They forget that thero la no law bidding him kill, but a mighty one warning him against It. They do not Bee that his Immunity Is a direct encour agement to his kind, and dreadful menace to the lives of many Inno cent persons among whom he U per mitted to range at large. Always, where governments have been moved to a short-sighted poli cy of indiscriminate mercy and have abolished the death penalty, the re sult has been an enormous Increase of crimes of violence throughout the laad. The unprotected, the law abiding, and the helpless have been sacrificed to the -criminal classes and to these experiments of mis guided humanitarians. After the re cefit abolishment of the death pen alty In France, murders increased at a shocking rate, and now the wise statesmen and most publlc-splr llted * Journals have "Once more "brought about the establishment of the guillotine, whose knife glitters steadily before tho eyes of potential eons of Cain in England, where the laws against murder are swiftly and vigorously enforced, the crime Is comparatively rare. In our own 1: (1, the cowardice of Juries and judges, the power of money to delay or frustrate the law, and a false and weak sentimentality bind up ihe sword of Justice. For this we pay a daily tribute of blood, misery, Und money that ought to make us ?3iYuucfC-r." A brilliant writer upon this sub ject has said that a man's first mur der is his own, his second is ourB. jtt is obvious that all murders are not necessarily the result of a crim inal blood-lust; It 1b true that many Iinfortujxnte men, the slaves of sud -tTen^passlon or the victims of great provocation, may be worthy of re demption. For them the law has pvo.lded by making the crime one that may bo classified Into various degroes. For them, likewise, the benefit of the doubt, the easy In terpretation of the law, the leniency of Judges, and the soft-heartedness and often Boft-headedness of Juries, make sufficient allowam The fact that the abolitiv.. death penalty usually operator dl vectly contrary to the claims of the advocates of abolition throws a sad and revealing light upon the baser Instincts of man and upon the dan gerous Ignorance of most reformers. iLet us hope , that humanity. In Its ceaaelcss upward struggle, may ho perfect ..itself that the black fruit of The gallows-tree will put forth no more because the red "Seeds of mur der will no longer sprout. Until that tlnje comes. It shall, alas, be necessary for the oommon welfare to enforce that stern cannon which gives ample warning, but which Vhould fall firm and fast upon all who deliberately violate that first of |awi, human and divine: "Thou shalt not kill." ? Herman Schef fauer In September Lipplncott's. The annual ro-union of the Red Shirt organization of South Caro lina la being held in Columbia this week. They begau to assemble there on Wednsday and it was truly an Inspiring sight to see everywhere In Columbia the streets filled with the brave ^eomanry 6f South Caro lina wearing the red shirts. They all seemed happy to be there ? they could not be otherwise for Columbia glad to have them as her guests. How vividly were the stir ring scenes of '76 brought back to mind and how -uch wo ewe these wearers of red shirts. Truly as thg_ Columbia State said editorially yes terday, the happiness and prosperi ty that prevail in South Carolina to-day *re the fruit of the Red Shirt campaign. IlKD (JMUMiH HKAL WOT AlJOtr iNpm ltt? O/fl.UI Order Nt<w IX s ign Will Im? I S? <l. "Not only *111 the Bale of Ited CrohH ChrlHiuiHB Heal a bo continued thi* year, but It will be curried on along broader llneu and will be larger and more comprehenalve than ever before," aaya Doctor Mvlngatou Far rand, Kxecutive Sec retary of Hie National Aaaociatlon for the Htudy and Prevention of Tuberculoma, In a atntement laaued yeaterday by <he t'reaa" Bureau of that organization. Dr. Farrand deniea abaolutely the Htfttementa which have appeared re cently to the effect that l'ostinuater General Hitchcock had forbiddeu the aale of Ited Croaa Beala. "No offi cial order haa been laaued on t h l? matter," aayB Dr. Far ran d. "On Ju ly lbt tho I'oat Office Department decided that they could no longer curry mall matter which bore atumi* or aeala which reaembled postage etampa. Our dealgn of the itod Croaa Seal, however, haa been up proved definitely by Poatmaater Gen eral Hitchcock and the Department, and It doea not come within the prohlbltiona of thla order of July let. It hardly looks aa if we wore going to abandon the aale, when we have already placed the order for the printing of fifty million Beala and for largo quantltiea of advor tiaing matter. "The Ited Cross Seul this year will be from a new design drawn by an artlBC in Washington, D. C, Ev ery effort haB been made to get us far away from the conventional de afgn of atampH and aeala aa possible The new seal will depict a very pretty winter acene. lu 9 lower right hand corner will jpear a enow-covered houau wl* , pine tree alao anow-covered, ' . ? the fore ground. Tho Bcene b: n>. night and the windowa a.o Uftii'jd. , In the bt.ck ground are r r^oj and anow cappud hllla.? In iLi upper left hand corner will appea a email red croaa. "The entire '--sign la encloaed with a heavy red * 'rcle. The year la expreaaed In man numerals. The only other ? . rds on the seal are, "American 'ed Cross, Merry Christmr Happy Xow Vear." Tho corners <? the aet'l, which will bo auuaie, are In white* thus gi "?/, tho'effcot ?>< a circular seal v>i?>n It in affhied to letter* and pirn* UgCS. ir Ih very Important that el?rv jOAO l>*-vi r fn ui lad that the i'om Of fice Depurt i?wiiit will uot carry w".v letters bearing these sonls or nnv other noil* postage stamps upon flu face of the letter. Hod Cross ;<>???!? ^jiuy and should be placed un liuj, ' back of letters and puckagea. "Agents for the sales of Kr4 Cross Seals have now boon ayi??i.W, ; ed in every large uc.'te of >'"> United ,siates. More territory trill be covered this year, and nr."* agents will aeil seals than ever be fore. We need and want a up '<u dollars from the sale of lied i mi Heals lu 1911." MliKCriO. N NOTIUJH. Notice Is hereby given that t'?V ?# wlii be an election held iu the i ' y of Camden, H. C., on Thursday, fh'> Oth (fifth) ? f October, 1011, t Which all d electors of."M??. city of Cam<l all have the-iKi to vote upon .o Question of tfirini,ng an ordinance passed by <c ' i t y Council of Camden, 8. C., 30th day of August, 1911, granting exclusive franchisee to the Camden Water and Light Company to lur nlsh water for domestic purpose* and for fire protection t or the City of Camden, and for furnishing elec tile lights to the City of Camden and the inhabitants thereof, for a period of twenty (20) years from the date of said ordinance, August 30th, 1911. That those In favor of confirm ing t: ?> ordinance granting this franchise will vole "Yes;" those not in favor of confirming this or ;d inum- gahtli.g this franchise v!ll voto "No." lly order of the City Council of the City of Camden, S. C., this 30th day of Au-rust, 1311. a. K f J It A^INGTON"" - Mayor. U. 1>. C. The John D. Kennedy Chapter U. D. C. wi". meet with Mrs. Douglas Boykln on Monday afternoon, Oct. 2nd, at 6 o'clock. All vi?lt.ing daughters welcomed. READY TO GO When You Say So That 1b why I. H. C. engines are so popular with the larmer, the shop man, the mill man, tho ? EVERYBODY. Wherever power Is used I. H. C. engines are found. In the shops, on the roads, In tho fields, on the farms ? EVERYWHERE. Go over to Mr. Smith's ootton gin. If he Is using gasoline engine power, AND DOING GOOD WORK, he has an I. H. C, Engine. Stop at Mr. Jones' shop. If ho Is using gasoline power, and get tlng the Business, he has an I. H. C. Engine. Visit Mr. Brown's farm. See those electric lights, the water towor and the Power House, where tho churn, the feed mill, the washing ma- -- chine, the pump, and the grindstone are all READY TO GO when Mr. Brown Says So. All he has to do is to give one turn of the wheel his I. H. C. Engine and SOMETHING MOVES. It always MOVES w Iv an I. H. C. There's . POWER. MR. MAN: If you' are looking for POWER, STEADY, REGULAR, EVERRBADY POWER, you will fin d what, you are looking for in the I. H. C. line of GASOLINE ENGINES. -o ? " We have a handsome catalogue ready to mail you, which gives a thorough and complete description of these engines. I. H. 0. Gasoline Engines range in sise from l-HP to 46-HP ? Portable, Stationary and Tractors. Drop us a card and the Catalogue , will reach you fn tho NEXT MAIL. , i ?? " ? ? ~ ? . ?' \ ipRQSfi International Harvester - of America (Incorporated.), SOUTH CAROLINA CUBNKRAL AGENCY, ? COLUMBIA. 31