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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE Published Every Friday Per Annum , . , . $1.00 W. L. McDowell, . . . . Proprietor. it. D. Nile*, ; I>. A. McDowell, . . > Publl?her?. it. fy. McDowell, V. } laUnd m >?i?< <Um mil m*Um M tl? PmUMm at Cmhm, !?? Cn*liM. -L" '"'..'7'"' * -*" **"*?- ? ? ;? ? ? ?? 1100 N. liroud Hi. - 'Phone 20 C*m<Utot fh ?*, Peb, 10, 1912. Senator Tillman ha? Introduced a bill authorizing the secretary of the treasury to pay to Heaver Dam Baptist church, of Marlboro county the lum of 16,000 for use, occupa tion and destruction of their church property by the military force# of the United State* during the War Between the States. < "Unless it can be more generally enforced, a result to be wished, it seems unfair and unjust to the pre sent Income taxpayers; but If en forced generally it would be a fair and proper tax,'! says Comptroller General Jones, discussing the en forcement of the income tax law in his annual report to the general as sembly. The amount received from the Income tax last year shows a Sdlght decrease over 1010. TlitKSOMK. , It is indeed tiresome to note the vurious accusations and allegations against Governor Bleaae, and fain would wo cry out "give us a rest." Kvery morning there is blazoned to the world fresh charges from differ ent individuals and the legislature in particular against him. It may appoar smart' to the parties Indulg ing in it to call the Govqrrior a liar, etc., but the public generally is tired of it. Some members of the legislature aeem to think thoy have rendered valiant service when they have termed the Governor a falsifyer. The Governor has IiIh faults, of course ho has, (who of us have not?) but this continued houndldg is very undignified, and will react in the Governor's favor. Dot the few remaining days of the legislature of 1912 be spent to a better purpose than maligning the chief executive, and let those who are inclined to cast stones, first lie sure that they themselves are with out Bin. ElilOl TKOCUTION. _ It Is pretty well assured that the Legislature Ik going to aubatltute tho electric chair for the ropo an the official form of capital punish ment In this State. A bill to the purpose has paused the House while the Senate has indicated approval of a similar measure now heforo it, and without doubt the combined bo dies will act in harmony over the proposition, and there Is no partic ular reason apparent why the meas ure should not receive the Gover nor's signature. In opposing the substitution of tht! electric chair for the noose, a member of the House brought up the objection that death by electric ity did not have -the deterrent ef fect of hanging. But surely this objection can not be entertained seriously, and as ti matter of fact was not hold In much esteem by tho House. Death In any form does not hold much attraction to tho or dinary human being, whether he be criminal or normal minded. Hut cer tainly tho average heart would quail in the face of electrocution when it would bea>t with confidence under a swinging noose. The criminal ex ecuted by the hangman goes to his death braced up by tho companion ship of his fellow men, and caaeH aro rare where a condemned man has broken down at the foot of the gallows. Remarkable nerve charac terized the recent hanging In Char leston, a nerve without doubt duo a much to tho elbow touch with fel-J low beings as to any other one cause. Hanging is horriblo enough to a victim, but how much more horrible must bo tho sensations of a condemned murderer who must go forth In tho cold, still dusk o> tho morning, with no friends to bid him farewell, and tako his seat ii ? that silent chair of death, which i in a moment to rend his soul from bin body. Painlessly enough, It true, and with certitude, but in ?; way devoid of sentiment and rob bed of the consolations of the dra matic. If a man finds It horrible to dio before hundreds of men by the Ignoble noose, how much more terrifying and soul chilling must he find the march to the awful chair of death. Electrocution is more merciful than the noose, but none the less horrible. its great merit is to rob legal execution of melo drama, and to insure its perform ance with convenience and dispatch, elevating capital punishment to a plane that the noose can never at tain. ? Charleston Post. Letters oj) Poorly Printed Stationery Go Into the A classy looking letter heart wins atten tion and puts the recipient Into a pleasant frame of mind for the letter underneath. We Print That Kind of Stationery. w? Arc Rudy to Print Your*. ROCK SALT FOR MOBS BITTER THAN LEAD BULLKTB, ?AYS SIR HIRAM MAXIM* Reserve Fore* Should Carry Qurw Uoaded With Buckshot for Un If tho Riotous Crowd Is Unsubdued. It baa been suggested that some thing less deadly than leaden bulieta should be used by our troop* against rioters. It baa beon suggested tbat bullets might be made ef sawdust and grease, but this Is altogether Im practicable, as such bullets would sim ply be atomised by the foroe of the explosion and atmospheric resistance. The suggestion Is, however, a good one. Inasmuch as It sets one thinking on a subject that wa shall hare to face very shortly. The ordinary mlHtary rifle Is a very powerful weapon. It has been designed for killing at very long range, and It Is quite possible that un* der favorable clrcumatancea at abort range the aame bullet might paaa through 20 men. Disorderly, murderoua inoba are constantly Increaalng In numbera, and each riot la fiercer and more deter* mined than thoae that have preceded It. There la bound to be a greater number of them In the future, which we ahall have to deal with, whether we like It or not, therefore I hold that we ahould make a study of the aubject and provide and uae the beat possible arms for the purpoae. It muat not be suppoaed for a single moment that large and turbu lent mobs such as were lately found in Liverpool, and who fight like de mons, can be subdued without the loss of some life. Some loss lb In evitable, but let It be as small aa pos sible and let us, at least, attempt to avoid doing Injury to any except those who are actually making war upon the soldiers or police. Suppose tho office** in command had 40,0 soldiers opposed, we will say, to 20,000 hooligans and strikers.' . It would bo boat to arm about 200 of them with very large bore, single barrel Shotguns, having rather short barrels, and these should be provid ed with cartridges of the ordinary type; Lut, instead of lead shot, they should be loaded With very coarse grains of hard rockaAlt, the gralna be ing ahout the size of large peas. The salt haB the advantage of being light, so that it does not penetrate very tar, and, as it soon dissolves and runs out of itself, and as It Is also an antiseptic, no surgical operation would be necessary. Rock salt was used very success fully In the early Colonial days of New England. Another hundred of tho ' soldiers should ho armed with the same kinds of gun, but the cartridges should be loaded with a small charge of black powder and a yery large charge of buckshot. These shot would not kill at a range of a few hundred feet, but at very close range of a few feet, where all the shot are In a lump, they would-be fatal. With these 300 guns tho crowd could in all probability be kept at bay. Of course the buckshot would not be used until the salt had failed. Then, again, if the attack was very violent the whole 300 guns could be worked with buckshot. ? Sir Hiram Maxim, in the London Express. Police In Blbflcal Time#. George Gordon Battle told the mem bers of the New York Police Lieuten ants' Benevolent association, assem bled In monthy meeting at Terrace Garden, that it was no new thing for the populace of a city to register kicks against the police force. To show how ancient this custom was, he quotod the prophet Isaiah's arraign ment of the police force of his day, where he said: "Yet, they are greedy dogs which can lievor have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter." Mr. Battle had volunteered to enter tain tho police lieutenants with an ad dress upon tho historical development of the English police system. Ho traced tho course of the policeman from tho vlgiles of tho Emperor Au gustus down through the watchmen of England, not neglecting to touch on tho estimable Constable Dogberry. Which led him to conclude with tho thought that though the members of the New York police force were but human, as a body tho force had rec ognized its obligations and lived up to them. Long time to Get to the Bridge. A scientist attached to the Museum of Natural History in New York, a most unRophisticated man, was one evening enjoying a brisk walk In the vicinity of tho park on his way home when he encountered aN forlorn look ing woman scantily clad and weep ing. Tho scientist's heart was touched, as ho stopped to see what he could do for the unfortunate. "I want to go to the Brooklyn bridge," explained the woman, "and I'vo lost my way." The gentleman supplied sympathy, minute directions as to reaching the bridge, together with a liberal amount of car fare. Some time later a similar incident occurred. The scientist. Just as be fore, was oncountered at dusk by the same woman, who went through the same scene. "I want to go to the Brooklyn bridge, * she walled. "Mercy!" exclaimed the scientist, "haven't you got to the bridge yetf* CANTILEVER BRIDGE OF LOGS Interacting Structure Built by the British Columbia Indiana Ovar the Bulkeley River. Some Interesting example* of In dian Ingenuity are affordad on the River Bkeena and Ita tributaries in North British Columbia. Tbeaa wa terways in their upper reaches flow very ewlftly and for the moat part through deep ravines. Aa It la im< possible for the Indiana to croaa them by means of canoea they have retort ed to bridging. Theee brldgea are Interesting struc tures from the engineering point of view, Inasmuch aa the cantilever prin ciple la adopted. A bridge of thla de sign spans the Bulkeley river where it Is about 120 feet wide, and tbe height from the bridge to watdr level Is about 80 feet. It is built of wooden loga, tbe legs of the structure being formed of sin gle atout loga varying from 60 to 80 feet In length. The task of lowering them Into poaltlon must have de manded considerable ingenuity on the part of the bulldera. They are burled about 16 feet at their lower enda and anchored by the sujperimpositlon of masses of large rock roUed and carried to the site. The longitudinal members of tbe shore spans are similarly burled In the ground and lashed to the ends of the diagonal legs. These main members, correspond ing to deck glrdera, are about 120 feet In length, and to either en# the A membera of the superstructure are lashed. Elaborate cross* bracing is resorted to In order to secure greater strength. When the bridge was first erected the different jpembers were simply secured together by willow thongs, but when the British Columbian gov ernment erected a more substantial suspension bridge lower down the river the Indians assembled and fol lowed the white man's operations with great Interest. They observed how the thick wire cables were-slung and anchored, and accordingly decided to Introduce wire into their own struc ture. They procured the material for thla purpose from wherever they could and Introduced It In a most fantastic manner. Also when the Grand Trunk Pacific railway engineers commenced working on their track near by the Indians procured odds and ends, such as bolts and spikes, from them for Introduction in their bridge, so that now It is a strange looking piece of work, though the fundamental conti lever lines are still distinct. ? Scien tific American. Genius at Table. It would appoar that the man of genius usually requires a large supply of substantial feed. Intellectual work domands full nutrition to repair the waste of brain tissue. Scott was wont to attribute hlB extraordinary capacity for continuous work to his good di gestion and the wholesome rest of his appetite in his youth. "I ) as keen an appetite n6w as any r un," he said, "but I know when to Btop." Mlrabeau is stated to have been an enormous feeder, eating as much at a meal as would suffice three ordinary men. Talleyrand ate large quantities of food,, but cared little for the quali ty. Bismarck was noted for his appe tite, which was insatiable, but his food Was of the simplest. Many stories are told of the gross delight in eating evinced by the two Dumas, father and son, one of which is that the younger, being overtaken by & storm took refuge In a #hotel near Paris. Twenty-four turkeys wore hanging upon the spit. "And all for a single traveler," ex plained the host. "C'est mon pero!" exclaimed Alex ander. Ho was right. ? Harper's Weekly. c' Nervousness and Exercise. When there is a lack of sufficient exercise there is a general weakening of the organs of digestion. All food needs a certain amount of oxygen mixed with it during the process of digestion, and oxygen is deficient la the blood of inactive persons. The nerves suffer from want of pure oxygen. Thoy run like a network all through the skin, and when they are overwrought the skin is apt to be dry and colorless. Walking is an excellent tonic for the nerves. It gives them strength to control themselves. Exercise combined with fresh air may be obtained in regular dally walking, for It is the good friend, as it were, of all those organs of the body that have to do directly with making a good, clear skin and a rosy complexion. If one has moans of leisure, there are plenty of other more enjoyable exercises. But few forms are so bene ficial as the regular dally jaunt of four or five miles for obtaining a good complexion. Oemand for False Hair. The hundreds of tons of false half sold every year in New York come from many different countries. It de pends generally on the color. Darl^ hair, as a rule, comes from Brittany, where girls are willing to sell their locks for money for their dot Flaxen hair comes chiefly from Germany. The really beautiful black hair that has indigo tints la from Italy and Spain. Much black, however, comet from Japan and China. Golden hair la the rareat and costliest of all. Dealers in hair ransack the world for golden locks to. make puffs for New York women. Importers say the demand for false hair Is increasing, and it is impossible to get enough of the best quality to supply tfc ASSERTS FISH HAS ilEMORY Novel Exhibition With Trout la Given by an Export to -Uphold This Thoory. Au export in ttsh culture, who bo lleves that flsh have memories, gave a uo vol exhibition to support bis theory. In ono of the enclosed pool* at the hatchery under bla fcjiarge there wm a very large trout which always came forward to se* and be seen when visitors appeared. It was the expert's custom, after calling particular atten tion to that trout, to raise bla cane quickly and hold It over the water. The performance would have no effect upon the trout. Tben the expert would produce a light trout rod and appear with It at the side of tbe pool. Instantljr that trout would turn and flee, hide Itself at the fur end of the enclosure and remain there so long as the rod was In sight This Is tbo explanation of the sud den change In tbe trout's demeanor: One day, early In tbe career of the flsh, the expert, to try a t>arbless hook he had devised, cast with one In that pool, and this trout aelsed It. The hook penetrated and passed through Its upper Jaw, and by the tfme It was released from tbe book It had undergone an experience that made a lasting Impression upon It. The expert discovered soon after the hooking of the trout that whenever he approached the pool with his rod tho trout wou/d Instantly daah to a place of hiding, although It paid no attention to a cane or other stick held over the water. The trout lived for years In that pool and never failed to show Its fear of a trout rod as long aa It lived. ~ ? ? MOTH MILLER IS VERY HARDY Man Finds One in Library Book That Apparently Had Been Closed Many Years. "How long can a moth miller live without air and light?" Is a question puzzling the bookworm. "I opened an old library book the other day," he said, "that had the ap pearance of having been closed for' a century, and on the very first page I found a moth miller. He lay lifeless for a few minutes, but pretty soon he began to wriggle. Now, ordinarily, moth millers are my chief aversion. I take a cruel delight In killing them, but I could not kill that moth miller. 1 played the role of liberator Instead. His helplessness touched me, and I blew on him, flicked him with my fin ger, and after awhile he was able to fly away. "Now, what I would like to know Is, how long had that hisect been en tombed? My curiosity carried me to the length of Inquiring when the book had been called for last, but the at tendant Informed me that the book was In the reference department, and It would be a prodigious labor to traoe the- latest reader, so how long the moth miller had suffered captivity Is still a mystery." ~T / . ' Painless Dentistry. In the Sunday school teacher's ex perience the only kind of a dentist she had ever known was a man who pulled or repaired teeth, so when the nice little girl In her class said her father was a dentist the teacher con cluded to patronize him. She knew his address and called one day with nerves braced for treatment of an un sojind tooth. She wa,s shown into a small workshop, whose sides were lined with big grandfather clocks. "Dentist?" the man exclaimed. "Great Scott, no; I'm a clock mender, but I know how the kid came to make the mistake. People In this trade al ways call th# fellow who makes a spe cialty of tinkering with grandfather clocks a dentist. The wheels of most grandfather clocks of American man ufacture are made of wood, and when the clock stops the worriout teeth 1 have to be removed fron? the wheel and sound teeth put in. So I really do work with teeth and deserve the name of dentist." Saw No Future for Pittsburg. "Pittsburgh" of the ninth edition of the "Encyclopaedia Brltannica" had quietly become "Pittsburg" in the tenth. The former, to which America has now officially reverted, Is the orig inal spelling. When General Forbes captured Fort Duquesne in 1758, he re named it Pittsburgh in honor of the great English lnspirer of victory. In 1784 Arthur Lee described the place In language which seems strange to those who know "the femoky city" ot, today: "Pittsburgh is inhabited al most entirely by Scots and Ipish, who live in paltry log houses. There are In the town four attorneys, two doctors and not a priest of any persuasion, nor church or chapel, so that they are likely to be damned without the bene fit of clergy. The place, I believe, will never be very considerable." German Trade Advancement. _?_] At one time the county of Lanca shire, in England, produced practically all the sulphuric add In the world. The commerclakdevelopment in Ger many and othemorelgn countries of a special process of manufacture, origi nally inyented by an Englishman, ha# lost this trade to England. Similarly* the working out by Germans fit ft method of making artificial indigo baa already revolutionised the indigo busi ness and bids fair also to revolution ise the cotton dyeing industry. Four fifths of all tha dyes used in the world are made in Germany. - Bhovei iWe. Beginning at 10 o'clock Saturday morning, February 174b. Burps & Barrett will sell .120 long handle Bhovels at 37 cents each. Only 6 to one customer. These shovels are good 76 cents values. W. B rat-Co ii deLoache is In Hamp ton In attendance upon court this week. CHEETAH HUNT' IN INDM | ? * ? Sport Was pncs Very Popular With Kngllsh neslder.v ? Is Not Rare Btert. The cheetah hunt which the vice roy witnessed recently at llyderbad remluds one that cheetah hunting was an extremely popular sport with In dian prlnceK In former daya, although the Initiation of European forms of aport haa done much In these times to rob It of ancient vogue. v It was practiced both by Hindu and Mohammedan chieftains over the greater part of India, for the cheetah even now ia not a rare beast, and a century or *o ago muat have been common enouyh. Another animal used in the same way by Indian nobles wan a sort of lynx, spelled variously ua "shoe goose," "tyahgush." But this wei used much more rarely than the chee tah. However, it was not only In dians who Indulged In this form of sport. - ... It was enjoyed and practiced by Europeans as well in the days when they were content to abide In India for fifteen years at a stretch and wnen they lived a l'lndienne Jin a way unknown to modern times. More than one of the Company's nabobs kept their own cheetahs, which were fre quently presents from friendly chiefs* o It may easily be Imagined that chee tah hunting was very good sport and welcomed by the servanta of the Company, as an excellent st^stltute for, the coursing which was familiar to them in England and which, like the cheetah hunt, haT vanished be fore the spread of games such as ten nis and golf. ? Madras Mall. TAX NOTICE. Office of Treasurer Kershaw Co., Camden S C,. Sept. 29, 1911. Notice is hereby given that the books will be' open for ,ooUectihg State, / County and School Taxes from October 15th, 1911, to March 1st, 1912. A penalty pf 1 per cent, will be added to all taxes unpaid January 1st, 1912. 2 per cent. Feb ruary 1st, 1912, and 7 per cent. March 1st, 1912. The rate per centum for Kershaw County is as follows: Mills. Btate taxes > 6% County taxes . . . . 4 V4 Special taxes 2 *4 Koad taxes . , .. . . . ..--2%; School taxes ". S Total ... 17 X The following School districts hare special levies: Special school tax Dist. No. 1 4% Special school tax Dlst. No. 2 1 V6 Special school tkx Dist. No. 4 3 Special school tax Dist. No. 6 4 Special school tax Dist. No. 7 2 Special school tax Dist. No. t 2 Special school tax Dist. No. 10 5 peclal school tax Dist. No. 11 5 "~t peclal school tax Dist. No. 12 2 1 Special school tax Dist. No. 13 4 ' Special school tax Dlst. No. IB 3 Special school tax Dlst. No. 17 3 I Special school tax Dist. No. 18 3 I Special school tax Dist. No. 19 2 Special school tax Dlst. No. 21 2 Special school tax Dist. No, 22 2 Special school tax Dlst. No. 24 3 Special school tax Dist. No. 26 2 Special school tax Dist. No. 27, 6 Special, school tax Dist. No. 28 2 Special school tax Dist. No. 40 8 Special school tax Dist. No. 46 ^ 8 ~ The poll tax is $1. All able-bodied male persons liv ing In Kershaw county between the ages of 21 and 65 years of age are liable to a road tax ef two dollars which shall be paid when they pay the State and County taxes for the present year. All Information as to taxes will be furnished upon application. D; mccaskill, County Treasurer. ^ LITTLE LOCAL LIMES OF CITY AND COUNTY FOLKS ITKM8 TOO 8HOKT FOtt A (MTHKKKD ANI> (JKOVI*^ FOR QUICK KKAlHNa . Capt, M 8. Chase, wife and efirn dren spent Saturday in Camden Ulng Rev. ami Mm. H. H iiiowije A heavy enow began falling u. 4;$0 on Saturday afternoon which UiMted until 7 : ?0 the nex# momilS A high oold wind accompanied snow, which made it very. dUsKi**. able. At least eight Inches coves ed the grougd. On 8unday moie. lng and afternoon there were taa&y enow battles. Others amused th?fe selvee building snow men and roll! lng huge show balls. H. Ij. Watklns, chairman of tk city Democratic party, states that a meeting Is to be arranged rood which will be held a* the opera or oourt house, when ttv? municipal cu ; dldatee will speak. On account of the keen rivalry among the candu dates in the various wards for the mayor's chair, it promises <to b? t meeting of great interest. Miss Virginia Taylor, who was companled by her friend, Mia* Vi lan McCulloug, and Miss Clara Wi lace, all students At Winthrop w lege, spent several days hereM week* Miss Katherlne Zemp, who wi accompanied by her friend* . Mi Slmms, of Barnwell, both Btudei at the College for Women in lumbla, spent Sunday here Miss Zemp's parents. Mr. Thomas J, Harper, a well known citizen of Columbia, < last Sunday night. Mr. Harpor a Confederate soldier and sei in Kershaw's brigade. Wood's Seeds JFor 1912. Our New Descriptive Catalog]! is fully up-to-date, and tells ai {? about tfye best Garden and Farm Seeds. 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