The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, March 01, 1912, Image 3
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The Hospital Fund.
flier* wu a large meeting of the
Hospital Auxiliary at the Court
House on Saturday, the 24th. to dls
tuii the constitution and other Im
portant matters. Mini Cora Ritchie
wan elected corresponding secreta
ry, and will addreea circular letters
to every part of the county, urging
the formation of clubs to help raise
funds for the Auxiliary. The city
has been canfassed by blocks and
memberships solicited, and the re
sponse was generous, as the fee is
only 26c for the year. A letter was
read by Mrs. A. C. Ancrura from Dr.
^lmou Baruoh, of New York, in
/jyhlcb he offered a lot of to l-z
acre* in the city limits to be rent
ed or sold for the usa of the Aux-.
lllary-Mhe fund to be known aa the
"Baruch Fund." and he makes it
conditional that a rough stofte shall
be placed at the north corner of
the lot with an Inscription to this
effect, to incite others to do" like
wise.
A time and place was Chosen for
the regular monihly meeting h<
after. Another meeting was held
at the home of the President, Mrs.
D. A. Boykln, a few days later, to
devise ways and means of raising
money, and it was deoi^Mi to serve
dinner during the March term of
court at the Armory at the popular
price of 25c per plated -and five la
dles of the executive committee
were put In charge* of committees,
selected by themselves, to serve.
It was suggested to have a "Tag
Day," and the suggestion was adop
ted, but the day decided on is not
to be made known, but to be
"sprung" upon us suddenly and ev
ery corner will be found policed \>y
a pretty maiden, who will be strict
ly enjoined, simply tQ hold out her
pretty hand to th? passers by and
say "for the hospital." There will
be no Injunction against her "look
ing unutterable" things, to open, the
hearts and purses of 'men, but no
one will be Importuned If he is not
inclined or prepared to give. i
One of the members proposed we
form ourselves Into a "calendar,"
and explained how we could raise
$260 by only"- pledging one cent a
week for a year. Some of the mem
bers were quite puzzled by the ma
thematical Calculation Involved, but
"followed the leader"' blindly, and
at once the months chose their
weeks and the weeks chose their
days, and Jthe Treasurer became a
"year," and we all pledged the in
Bignlficent one cent a week, that
In some occult way will become such
a large sum. In the midst of the
meeting a ring at the phope*brough
the great news Qf Mr. 0era*rd Ba
ruch'B generous Intention of build
ing the hospital, and when we look
in the idea of wtoat it meant, all the
women jumped from their seats and
began to talk and to congratulate
each other and- t ho meetng, wh ich
a moment before had -been proceed
ing with due decorum and subdued
enthusiasm, became a . hysterical
mob of happy women, and all bus
iness was over for that evening, as
we wanted to get out and spread
the joyful news to evet-ybody we
met. What had seemed almost
hopeless undertaking Ijy a few en
thusiastic women a very short time
ago, had- been crowned with success
sooner than we dared dream of thru
the splendid gifts of the Baruch's
? father and son, and it will give
us courage to work with more zeal
than ever, to accumulate a sufficlen
sum to help materially in furplsh
ing the hospital and beautifying the
grounds. There has been a most
earnest spirit in all that has beeu
done so far, and it seems true that
"God helps those who help them
selves." *
Liet Zomp'g Drays do your haul
ing when you move. ' .
The Rock Hill Plan.
I #?
John Porter Hollis; representing
Col. John G. Anderson, originator
of the "Rock Hill Plail" for reduc
ing cotton acreage, was in the city
yesterday. Mr. Hollis stated that
he secured three men to act on
the Kershaw committee, Messrs J.
T. Mackey, chairman, A, D. K?nned
and J. H. Bu^ns.
'the Immediate duty Of this Goun
ty committee will "be to raise a
fund to pay canvassers who wHl
pass among the farmers and secure
pledges. The committee will undert
take the-~ raising of the necessary
funds at once^ It is thought that
there 'wil^ he no difficulty in doing
so.
The plan is taking hold all ovefc
the cotton belt of the South in
great shapes. It seeks to benefit
the farmer by .curtailing the acre
age planted to cotton and thereby
devoting this former cotton acre
age to other crops.
The following is a list of sul^
scribers to the fund for Installing
the "Rock Hill Plan": ,>
S; P. Brasington . . . . ; $10.0
L. X. Ouion . .... . . 10.0
A. D. Kennedy . . ? . . . .v . . 10.00
Springs & Shannon 10.00
Bank of, Camden .. .. .. .. 10.00
Loan & Savings Bank . . . . 10.00
First National Bank r 10.00
J. Sheheen A Bro 8.00
Camdefa Drug Co . . . 5.00
Rhame Bros. , . .... . . 6.00
Zemp & DePass ... 5.00
fyhTO Aj_Co. . . .. ... 5.00
?? L. Getty?- w . . . . . rr~7T~tfc00
Burns & 1 Barrett . 5.00
L, Schenk-ft V 0
Watklns Bros 3.00
Baruch-N?$ttle& Co 2.50
W. M. Shannon 2.00
o. C. Bruce.. .. 2.00
T. J. Arrants 2.00
SHHKw .. .. 1.00
HOW HISTORY IS DISTORTED
Russian Text-Book Shows. Curious l?v
?tan c? of Tampering Wltli
. Prenoh Hlatory.
Reasons of church, state or othei
policy have frequently ' caused the
acholara of one country to tamper with
the hlatory of another with which It
has been Intimately connected. A
curloua lnetance of such a distortion*
of French hlatory was that found In a
Ruaetan textbook, used In all Russian
public schools, and edited by a great
Russian scholar, llovalskl. The fol
lowing may be olted as an illustra
tion:
"Louis XVI. waa a good and peace
ful king. After a long and famous
reign, In which he waa moat happy In
his choice of minister of finance, he
died quietly In Paris, beloved by all
his people. Hla death waa cauaed by
a hemorrhage.
"The successor of Louis XVI. was
hta aon, Louis XVII. During bis reign
the bravo rbyal army, commanded by
General Napoleon Bonaparte, captured
the larger part of the European con- j
tlngent for the French crown. But
the faithless Napoleon ahowed ten
dencies toward misusing bis power,
and waa suspected of harboring d la
honest schemes against the legitimate
ruler. Wjtb the help of hla majesty
the emperor and autocrat of all the
Russlas, hla plans were frustrated, and
he waa deprived of all hla posses
alons, honors, and lights to a pension.
He waa then exiled to the Island of
St. Helena, where he died."? The Bun
day Magazine.
TO LAUNDER PAPER MONEY
Indians Man Dsvlees Msohlns That
WHI Waeh and Iron Soiled
Bills.
It costs the United States govern
ment one and one-third cents to manu
facture a $1 bill. When the bill be
comes soiled through continual han
dling It Is sent to the treasury departs
ment, which destroys It and Issues s
nice new clean bill In Its plaoe. The
'same may be said of all other paper
currency of large denomlnatlone. ?
Now comes a Sbelbyvllle, Ind., In
ventor, F. B.- Churchill, with a ma
chine for washing, Ironing and other?
wise laundering paper money. Accord
ing to the Inventive Age, Washington,
I the treasury department, redeemed
$1,183,000,000 in aolled bills laat year
and Issued new ones in place of them.
Eighty per cent of the "bills might
have been washed at a cost of one
tenth of a cent per bill and reissued
at a considerable, saving In cost to the
treasury department.
Mason and His Precious Gold Plecbs
John Mason, the player, has carried
three $20 gold pieces In his change
pocket ever slnco the npw Issue of
that specie, the two new coins, St.
Gaudens* with and without "In God
We Trust," and the old piece with
"Liberty's" head. At the stage door
of the Thirty-ninth Street theater In
New York recently an old man
begged the actor to help him secure
a night's lodging. John tossed the
beggar supposedly two silver half dol
lars, but Jn reality two of. his favorite
gold coins. The old man, noting the
denominations, actually ran after his
benefactor and pulled at his coat, In
tending to Inquire If the gold were
really given him in earnest. Before
he could open hi* mouth, however,
Mason pushed him back, exclaiming,
"Not twice in one night, old man."
"But do you mean it?" asked the beg
gar. "Certainly," answered Mason.
"Forty dollars, mister," cried the man.
?"Not on, your life," called Mason, as
his cab moved away, and then to his
P companion, "Think of that ? because
I give him more than he asked for he
thinks I'm easy ? demands $40."
The Growing 8ou4h.
The south is forging ahead at a
great rfUe. The fourteen southern
states, with Missouri and Oklahoma,
have aft population of 32,000,000, or
only" 18,000,000 leBS than the tstal pop
ulation of the United ^States in 1880.
, Since. 1880 the sixteen Southern states
have increased the annual value of
their mineral production from $20,
000,000 to 8340,000,000, as against
8450,000,000 in the whofe country in
1880. Their manufactured products
have a yalue within $2,000,000,000 of
the value of the whole country thirty
years ago. In 1880 the rallroadB of the
!' country had an aggregate length of
93,300 miles. The southern states now
have 87,000 miles. From southern
tports were exported last year goods to
a value only $100,000,000 less than the
value of all exports from the country
in 1880. ? Chicago American.
Good Thought, Anyway.
Little John Brice loves to walk with
his daddy through the woods. Last
Sunday these two fyid a famous walk
together, soaring up a rabbit or two,
and looking for squirrels. ,
Suddenly John stopped, in a listen
ing attitude. Then, "I know what
makes the wind," he announced.
"Jt's the tr?es whispering,"-! he in:
.{tivrnad his father, who had been wait-,
Ing for thft result,
; Perhaps ha is right? Cle^land
Leader.
VJOOO FROM WASTE PftPEH
Ohio Inventor Claim* to H*vo PerfeO
? i Machine Whlsb Will Accom
plish Just That Purpose.
Tttcro to &n old ?sw to i>t? ollwi
that*
"Nature works
iu circles.
Kvcry one
agrees;
Tree* grow
out of
doors.
Doors are
made from
trees."
dotue one
? with "% gift
For ihymlng may add another
verno about paiwr beiug made
from 'vood and wood now being made
out of old paper. An Ohio Inventor,
Oliver 11. liarber, has perfected a ma*
chine which does this. Ho taken old
newspapers aud straw and puts thorn
through hts machine mid they emerge
in the shape of artificial boards of any
deBlred length or thickness suitable
for building material, for railroad ties
or for furniture.
For many years the ever-Increasing
demand for ; white paper for newspa
per printing has boon making seri
ous Inroads on the available forests
of this country and Canada, and the
problem of where to find timber to
meet the demand has been growing
more and more menacing. This also
applies 1 to wood needed for building
construction, furniture and railroad
ties.
Turn about Is fair play, so today the
old newspapers are being converted
back again into wood which Is claim
ed to be even more suitable* for many
purposes than natural lumber. Spe
cimens of the new artlflolal wood
thai have already been made out of
old newspapers and Atraw vary In
thickness from an eighth of an Inch
upward, and range from narrow mold
ing to 7 boards four feet wide and
twelve feet long. The Inventor claims
that it can be Impregnated with cer
tain chemicals to render It fireproof,
can be made waterproof, can bo per
meated with any desired color during
the manufacture, or can be given a
highly polished surface finish. He
further asserts that, it Is susceptible
to all kinds of tool treatment, Is free
fifom knots and shakes, with their
frequent waste, and It can also be
used in embossing. ,
BADLY AFFECT THE HEALTH
Serious Ailments Have Been Proved to
^Be Direct Result of Labor In
, Household.
- One possible explanation of the rea
?.on why cooks, housemaids and other
domestic serv
ants are not,
as a class, the
healthiest von
earth, Is of
fored by the
Vienna corre
spondent of
the Journal of
the ? American
Medical Asso
ciation. He re
ports that a union of household serv
ants is being formed in Austria. One
5f the earliest results of the move
ment hos been the gathering of valu
able and interesting information re
garding the susceptibility of house
workers to ailments which others
seem able to avoid.
Cooks, it has been discovered, suf
fer from? gastric disorders because
of the too frequent tasting of the
foods they are preparing. Anemia is
"readily explained by the long stay
In badly ventilated rooms and the rare
walks in fresh air, as well as my the
Insufficient amount of sleep. Rheu
matlo affections are very common
among servants, partly on account of
the frequent exposure to cold and
bad weather, with insufficient protec
tion. partly from working in unheated
kitchens, washing kitchens and scul
leries. A frequent complaint of house
hold servants is static flat foot with
varicose veins, while a great, propor
tion of housemaids suffer from nerv
ous diseases and neurasthenia, or kys
teria.
The Austrian union of household
servants is seeking to Improve the
conditions under which its members
are employed in' order to reduce the
percentage of ailments to a mini*
I mum. a
BEETLE MUSHROOM FARMER
Scientific Investigation Has Shown
That Insect Possesses High Order
of Intelligence.
Scientists have known of mushroom
growing ants for a long time, and it
was generally
believed that
the ant was
the only insect
possessing suf
ficient intelli
gence to make
: A successful
m u s hrooip
? farmer. Prof.
J. BouvCrle,
the French
tomologiest, has found that" a certain
wood-boring beetle known u the Bos*
trjrchide is as familiar with mushroom
cultivation for home consumption aa
| the ant
Prof. Bouverle discovered that the
beetles bore holes in wood and half
fill them with a prepared fungus
which makea an ideal mushroom bed.
The garden is carefully spawned and
bonded and in course of time the munh
rooms appear. In this wajrtbe beetle
provides itself Wit* a t6od Sufficient
ly tender for Us '
SILK MADE FROM WOOD PULP
Mltirial It Brought From Norway
?nd Manufacture le Carried On In
United States.
la the manufacture of artificial
allk, wood pulp (row Norway Ih util
ised, being shipped hero la bales, ac
cording to the Textile Manufacturers'
Jouraal. This pulp is cut lato thin
?hoets, each individual shoot la care*
fully weighed and a cortalo quantity
placed In a metal tauk (or chemical
treatment.
The varloue chemical aolutlons used
are mixed In huge Iron tanks, from
which they aro pumped under grouad
through a series of Jead pipes to the
departments requiring the various
compounds. This pulp having been
maoeruted and digested, is submitted
to tftill further chemical action under
certain fixed temperatures which aro
not allowed to vary even one-half of a
degree.
When it Is ready for final trans
formation into allk the solution ploee
ly resembles molasses la color and
consistency. At this stage It la pump
ed from the taoks to the spinning
frames. Here specially ooaatruotod
pumps are attached to each spindle,
which carefully measures out the re
quired quantity of the solution.
This 1# forced through tubes with
an outlet containing Just as many
perforations aa there are U> he file*
ments in the thread. Through these It
is passed to a tank running the length
of the frame and containing a chem
ical mixture whloh fixes the solution
Instantaneously Into a thread.
This strand la carried over a wheel
down through a tube to a rapidly re
volving spindle; the rate of apeed
is about 5,000 revolutions a minute.
Prom this the straods are afterward
unwound oh reels Into skeins. The
air In tho spinning room Is complete*
ly changed every three minutes, being
pumped off through hoods placed over
each of the aplnnlng frames. This la
done to remove any possible fumes
and to provide thorough ventilation
for the operatives.
One of the interesting featurea in
connection with the entire operation
is the fact that the yarn is handled
aa little as possible. The specially
constructed stoves and bleaching ar
rangements are ideal, and when tho
skeins are finally carried to the large
drying room on the fifth floor one
marvels at tho change which has so
rapidly taken place. From here they
-are taken to tho sorting room, where
each individual skein is carefully ex
amined by skilled operators.
Office Holding In China.
In some respects the Chinese ap
pear to haye distinct advantages over
us. For instance, when a Chinese pub
llo office holder has failed to give
Satisfaction in his offlceholdlng? - ?
when he has shown that he Is the
wrong man in the right place ? he la
Invited to commit Bulclde, so that a
better servant of the people may suc
ceed him. The request is not a mere
formality. When it is made in the
proper way and backed by a proper
expression of public opinion it has all
tho force of a decision of the supreme
court. The man who Is condemned
has no escane save flight, and if he
runs away hiB family is forever dis
graced and degraded.
If we could import this Chinese cus
tom there would undoubtedly be a
great improvement in tho geoeral
business of office holding. It would
make muckraking almost unneces
sary, and senatorial investigations
would become obsolete. Moreover, it.
would give the offloe a real chanoe to
seek the man. The task of the voter
would be simplified, because there
would cease to be a multiplicity of
candidates for each office. If the Chi
nese system could be adppted with-,
out the accompaniment of the pigtail
it might be worth trying.
The Public 8hakespeare Wrote For.
Literary fame as a dramatist trou
bled Shapespeare not; but present ne
cessities could not be flbrgotten; chief
among them the necessity of pleasing
his publlo. His average public, the
one he had chiefly in view, whoa* av
erage heart and mind he had to-tonch
and delight, was that of the Globe, a
large, much-frequented house which
drew popular audleaces, and where
accidentally some ambassador might
appear; but the fate of the play would
depend not upon the ambe^gsador's ap
plause or some learned crltio's blame,
but on the Impression of the crowd ; A
boisterous crowd, warm-hearted, "full
blooded, of unbounded patriotism, a
lover of extremes, now relishing the
sight of tortures, now moved at tho
death of a fly, a lover, of the improb
able, of unexpeoted changes, of coarse
buffooneries, quibbles, common witti
cisms easy to understand, of loud
noises <Jf any sort, bells, trumpets,
cannon; men, all of them, of an en
cyclopaedic ignorance. ? From a Lec
ture, "What to Expect of Shakes*
pearo-" by J. J. Jusserand.
- . . The Tall Nor Chinas*.
J-% If the Chinese revolution triumphs"
and the "pig-tall" goep at last, that
will be an outward and vlalble sign
both: of reform and of emancipation
iLQW Mapchu rule. For it must be
rel&etnbered that what all the modern
world regards a a the chief distin
guishing nifcrk of the Chinaman la
not Chinese at all* hut a badge of
eubmlaslon to the Manchua not throe
centuries old. Whan Liao-Yang was
captured by the Manohus in 1618, the
inhabitants shaved the front part of
their lteada In token of allegiance,
and all China ffottSwad, though the
people of Amoy and Swatow district*
long concealed the mark of conquest
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Wmmmam
GARDNER & COMPANY
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Heavy and Fancy Groceries, Fresh
Meats and Country Produce
HIGHEST MARKET PRICES PAID FOR
hogs! and cattle
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Near Hermitage Cotton Mills
'Phone 221 -J.
Warm Weather
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Demands That Mp hi Be Absolutely
Fresh and Clean
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THE PLACE TO FIND THEM
CAMPBELL BROTHERS
'Phone 300-L
MOULDINGS
BOARDS
JUST RECEIVED
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A large assortment
of
Sash Doors and Blinds
We have your size ? Phone 81 or write
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SHAND BUILDERS' SUPPLY COMPANY
DeKALB STREET
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FLOORING
CEILING
For Your Breakfast
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Coffee, Baker's Breakfast Cocoa,
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Tetley's Teas.
SPECIALS:
Old Fashion Country
Lard
Premier Oat Flakes at
10c
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LANGS' a OtOCEli
"WHERE QUALITY COUNTS"
Phone 2. Camden, S. C.'
That quest
services, if y<
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ness colleges
SBookkMpeMMiU?aver
tea say that Draughon'a
Bookkeeping saves them
ir cent In work and worry .
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