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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE J Pub luM Every Friday IVr AlBMBU . ? Im* | ?'? * ' Vfltf hi ai ? ii ? ? ! r?i ??*43' W. I* McDowell Proprietor. H. D. Nil**, . ... . / Ii. A. McDowell. .. > Publishers. K. >1. McDowell. . . > llOO N. llroad 8t. ?~Vi L, ,.fc-.rr zsrrr~ssr.? ; - , (?Mixkn, H. P.. Aug. ?<, Ittltt. Iu the past few days The Chron icle hat* received many communica tions in advocacy of the various can-| dt dates ? both State and county. In every Instance they have been turn ed down where funds were not pro ' vided for payment . of name. A newspaper')* itpace Is IIn stock in trade and if they do not get paid for It they lone. However, when a l communication for the promotion of the community at large reaches this office we always gladly publish Maine. MatterH pertaining to the advancement of any Individuals' personal interest whether political, or otherwise, will be charged, for at the regular advertising rales. CAN Flldi THE OFFICK. Coroner Dixon Denies That He Is Physically Incapacitated. (Political Advertisement.) To the Voters of the County: ' It is being circulated, 1 suppose for the purpose of doing me polit ical injury, that my physical condi tion ,1s suoh that I am not able to attend the duties of the office of Coroner. For the information of the public, 1 desire to state that my condition physically for the past ten years chas been such that I have been able to do as much bug gy riding as any man In the coun ty and furthermore, I have been co and have been able to attpnd ev roner for three and one-half years ery call, day or night, weather con ditionn not even preventing my go ing at any and all times. Although, I am a cripple from rheumatism, and seemingly In poor condition to do the work of the office, yet I am willing for ray record of my adminlHtratlon to be compared with any record made by any coroner, of( thin or any other county, and If It Is not as good, the work as neatly done, l will withdraw from the race. I understand, further, thatj some criticism has been made con-, cerning ray place of residence. l| live only about a 30 minutes -drive; from the city of Camden and have an arrangement made with Mr. Jno. Hlnson, to notify me of any call, taking tills method rather than risk a phone, although I believe thej phone would have proven a cheaper arrangement, yet for the conven ience of the people of Kershaw County I have adopted the former method. I will say here, that Mr. John Hlnson has a phone in hit) house, and will bo glad to convey uuy message to me, pertaining to ray official duties. Mr. Hinson's phone is 2 8 2- J.. Yours truly, G. L. Dixon, Jr. Camden, HP. C., Aug. lf>. 1912. KKMBKRTH NKW'H XOTKS. Remberts, S. C., Aug. 20. ? Heavy ruins have fallen In this section In the last few days, while In the Pisgah section very little has fallen. Welder pulling is now going on. In some places corn Is very good, . but the crop as a whole Is not good. Cotton Is beginnign to open. The average will not bo over half of last year. A number of people in the sur rounding sections have fever of d If- ) ferent types. No serious cases as yet. Mr. Cole had to leave Mt. Zlon's protracted meeting last week and come home to his wife, who was .sick. She is improving. Hothany church, I^ee county, had a meeting Saturday and invited all its ex-pastors. A meetng of dayB is now going on there. To my surprise 1 road under rule 2, primary election instructions, pub lished in your ftaper the following: "No vote for house of representa tives shall be counted unless it contains as many names as the county is entitled to representa tives." Your executive committee no doubt are good men, but they badly slipped up when they publish ed such a rule to go by for It is perfectly null and void. If that is the law, no man has the right to voto as he pleases, but as he is told to do, and his freedom as a man Ih gone.f or the rule Is dictation, pure and simple. Your county is entitled to two representatives and a voto for three could not bo count ed for the managers would not know the voters choice. If the rule had said so, well and good, but you have to voto for two or no count. Suppose out of the can didates the voter only finds one he desires to vote for, and in order to vote for that one he has to vote for some one ho don't want to in order to get his vote for that office. Where does his choice as a free man come 1*. We fall to seo it. No state or party can make a law Infringing on the rights of the voter In the least. Such a law would be illegal. The voter has| the right to vote for ono or two representatives in your county and the courts will so say if carried bo fore them. All party laws have to be founded on the laws of the land and the legat rights of the voter. Any other law could not stand, for the primary law must be based on the constitutional rights of the vo ter. Baud. A bunch of one dosen keys was found in Camden on Tuwday last. Owner can get them by calling at the county Auditor's office and paying for this nfctlce. PWftt' ' - -f: - WORE OF ART 'THAN NATURE Matron'* Beautiful Flgu re, Admired by All, Quffsred Sad Collapse at Inopportune Tims. At a dinner party given lately In Parla om lady wu remarked above all others for tha elegance of ber fig ure and tbe perfection of her toilet. During tbe mauvals quart d'beure be fore dinner a be waa surrounded by a boat of admlrera, aid one leaa baabful than tbe reat ventured to otter ber tbe flower from bla buttonhole. It waa accepted, but as the "prlnoess robe" worn by tbe graceful creature waa laoed behind. It waa necessary to faaten tbe flower to tbe front of ber dreaa with a pin. Tbe operatloh waa successfully performed, and tbe fair lady waa led In to dlpner, by the donor of the flower. They were hard ly aeated when he heard a curious sound like the gentle sighing of tbe wind, and on turning toward bla part ner he aaw with horror that the lovely figure wga getting "small by degreee and beautifully less." Tbe, rounded form bad disappeared before tbe aoup waa over, and long before tbe first en tree tbe once crease^** garment bung In greet folds about a acraggy frame work! It aeema that tbe newest dresses for "slight" ladtee era made with alr-tlght linings and Inflated when on till tbe required degree of embonpoint la attained. Tbe uqforto nate lady mentioned above bad forgot ten this little detail when ahe fast ened tbe fatal flower to her bosom with a bin; henoe tbe collapse! ? Le bouchere In Truth of March 8, 1177. HOW EXPERTS FORM OPINIONS Distinguishing Marks May Be Forged, but the Man Who Knows Can not Be Deceived. A dealer In antlquea waa talking about art experts. "Take, for In stance," he aafd, "an expert In old pewter. You think, perhaps, be dis tinguishes old pewter by the marks ? the Tudor roses, the maker'a name, and bo forth? Hless your heart, those marks are continually .forged. No, he distinguishes old pewter by the feel. "It Is like the china expert. He, with his eyes closed, will distinguish hard and soft paste china. It's the feel again ? his fingers trained by years and yearti of study till each one has a brain in it. "Oriental rug experts have a very subtle sense of rug differences. Some times they distinguish a rug#by its smell ? the smell of tbe wool and the dyee. This seems Incredible till you think of the Harris tweed, that Im ported cloth that you yourself can distinguish by its smell ? the smell, which never leaves it, of the peat smoke of the cottage wherein It was woven on a hand loom. "Wool sorters, a less highly paid class of experts, can take up a hand ful of wool, and by its color tell you whether it came from Texas, from the territories, from England or from Canada. The soil, you see, gives its own color to the wool." About a Pair of "Panta." A Detroit man, who had contributed a bundle of his cast-off clothing for the relief of the victims of a fire, re ceived from one of the Bufferers the following notei "The committy man glv me amungst other thing's wat he called a pare of pants, and 'twould make me pant some to ware 'em. I found your name and where you live on one of the poklts. My wife laffed co when I shode 'em to her that I thot she wood have a conipshun fit. She wants to no If there lives and brethes a man who has legs no bigger than that. She sed if there Was he orter be taken up for vagrancy for bavin' no visible means of support. I could ent get 'em on my oldest boy, so I used 'em for gun cases. If you hav another pare to spare, my wife would like to get 'em to hang up by the side of the fireplace to keep the tongs In." ? Spofford's library of Wit and Hu mor. ?> My Rest Cure. Commit it to memory or paste it up where your eye will often rest upon It. Apply it daily as often as practicable; make It a part of your dally thought, and. my word for it. that tired feeling will vanish and you will know it no more forever. Your heart, your home, your life will be full of sunshine. Relax mind and body. Ease up on every nerve and muecke. Shut out all unpleasantness. Throw care to the winda. If yon become tired when reading, writing or In the pursuanoe of any* thing requiring mental effort; if the mind seems to loee its activity for a time, its quickness of perception, its power of concentration, it, too, needs a rest or change of activity. The brain not being a muscular organ, must rely upon bodily activity to draw away the blood that has been used and make room for new. ? Loe Angeles Time*. Inexhaustible Supply of Iron. One of the most wonderful sources of Iron la the world la at Lao a la ?fortne, Quebec, near to where Iron has been smelted since 1788. Organic acids dissolve the Iron rust In the sandy bottom of the river* running Into the lalo* wile re the exposure of Its atxrfaoe to the air tarns th* com position Into a peraalt, forming in a film upon the surface. This sinks la the lake1 forming "cake ore," which la a melted at the Radnor forges into the finest charooa! Iron. The aupply la always being replenished, and the Jake tarnishes one of the few "iron mines" in the world which will prob ably never be exhausted. ntlJM/MlY MLKtmON N(mcv. L.: .... . l; , ? 'MjfMWMi C..: Notice is hereby given that a primary election will be held on Tuesday, August *7th, 1#13, itt ac cordance with the rule* of the Dem ocratic party for the election of state and county officer*, aa fol lows: United States senator ' Gov.ernor. Lieutenant governor. Secretary of State. , L Comptroller general. State treasurer. Adjutant and inspector general. State puperlntendent of education. Attorney general. Railroad commissioner. For congress 6th district. For solicitor 6th judicial circuit. House of representative*. Sheriff. Clerk of court. County supervisor. Coroner. Couhty superintendent of educa tion. ' i Treasurer. , ? Auditor, Magistrate. County commissioners. Managers of Election. The following manager* of elec tion have been appointed; Buffalo ? J.?M. Howell, J, R. Ca toe, O. A. Johnson, 3C's. ? W. J. Young, W. M. G'au then, Jesse Barfleld. Granny's Quarter ? J. W. Boone, W. H. Owens. E. K. Sill. Abney. ? L. K. Klrkley, H. T. Horton, John Ray. Shamrock. ? J. F. Baker, M. M. Johnson, P. L. McNaughton. Bethuhe ? D, M. Bethune, 8. T. Gardner. J. H. West. Raley s Mill.-? M. L. Italey, S. J. West, G, L. Gardner. Hermitage Cotton Mill. ? C. L. Bradley, J. J, Munn, W. T. Hasty, Twenty Creek Club. ? N. P. Get tys, Reubln Ervin, Henry Watts. Beaver Dam. ? Hampton Hall, Ed die Rabon, Jerry Ford. LtogoJX. ? J. B. Parker, J. K. Lee, W. L. Jones. Sheppard. ? W. L. Stokes, , R. A. Gardner, F. J. Tidwell. Beulah? S, H. Micklo, Lee West, Hardy Dixon. Roland. ? G. C. Falls, H. H/ West, John Hough. Hanging Rock. ? F. P. Truesdel, O. H. Watson, Robert Perry. Harmony. - ? H. H. Sessions, J. M. Grigsby, T. M. Maddox. Blaney? 7-J. W. Wood, W. T. Jef fera, F. A. Nelson. Stockton. ? W. C. Seagle, E. M. Workman, W. R. Gardner. Cassatt. ? James Stokes, L. O. Funderburk, P. M. Melton. Camden Clubs. ? J. .J Goodalo, H. Truesdel, R. D. Williams. Swift Creek. ? A. H. Boykin, Jr., W. A. Boykin, J. Q. Godwin. Enterprise ? E. L. McCoy, R .L. Stokes, C. B. Spradley. Cantey. George Creed, Doby Huckabee, Burrell Barfleld. Antioch. ? H. C. McLendon, T. P. Brown, J. S. Brown. Pino Creek.? J. -t?. WilllamB, J. D. McCasklll, T. J. Truesdel. Sandy Grove. ? Hugh S. Thomp son, s. S. Stokes, W. C. Cobb. OaktandT=- W. F. McCaskli*, P. B. Fields, R. W. Humphries. Doby's Mill.? J. M. Martin, A. R. Peak, A. Hawkins. Shaylor's Hill. ? R. M. Drakeford, R. L. Smyrl, S. W. Hornsby. Salt Pond. ? W. L. Branham, J. R. Dinkins, T. W. Starnes. Westville. ? L. M. Truesdel, T. A. Cauthen, E. J. Gaskins. Belk Hll. ? D. W. Joy, C. K. Mc Caskill,, C. J. Nunnery. Pine Tree. ? Earl Hyatt, S. J. E. Peach, Wallace Horton. Liberty Hill. ? G. R. Clements, W. C. Cunningham, W. C. Perry. , as yet Bent in names of managers. J Names of managers should be sent to the secretary.? Rules Governing Election. Attention is called to the f ollw lnog rules: Rule 1. The qualifications for membership in any subordinate club of the Democratic party of this State, or for voting at a Democrat ic primary, shall be as follows, viz: The applicant for membership, or voter, shall be twenty-one years of age, or shall become so before the succeeding general election, and be a white Democrat, or a negro who voted for General Hampton in 187 6, and has voted the Demo cratic ticket continuously since. Provided, That no white man shal be exculded from participation in the Democratic party, and whose name has been enrolled on the Democratic club list five day? be fore the said primary election, and who is otherwise qualified under tho constitution and rules of the Democratic party to vote in th? primary elections. The managers at each box *1 tho primary election shall require every voter in a Democratic prima ry election to pledge himself to abide the results of tho primary, an to support the nopilnees of the party, and to take tho following oath and pledge, viz: "I do sol emnly swear that I am duly quali fied to vote at this election ac cording to the rules of the Demo cratic party, and that 1 have not voted before at this election, ?nd pledge myself to support the nom inees of tho primary." Rule 2. No person shall be per mitted to vote unless he has been enrolled on a club list at least five days before the said prtmary elec tion and has been a resident of the State one year and of the county in which he Beeks enroll ment sixty days preceding the next general election. The club lists shall be inspected by and certified to by the presl ldnet and secretary and turned ov er to the managers to be used as the registry list. No vote for house of representa tives shall be counted unless ^ it contains as many names as the county is entitled to representa tives. Presidents of clubs or executive committeemen are requested' to send in at once the names agers for those clubs that have not Role 3. The managers of flec tion shall open the polls at 1:00 o'clock a. m., and shall close them. . at 4 o'clock p. m. After tabulating the reiiult, the managers ahall cer tify the name and forward the bal lot box, poll llat and all other pa pern relating to suoh election, by one of their number to the cnalr iuun of the feepeotlfe Democratic county executive committees wltbln forty-eight hours alter the close of the ' polls. Voters of Buffalo township will obuerve the following divisions lu voting for magistrates: Eastern District. -?AH east and south of Red Oak Creek and the Porter Bridge road and the old Georgetown road. Western District ? All between Lynches Creek, the Lockhart road ttud the old Georgetown road. Middle District ? All the territory between the Eastern and Western DUtrlots. By order of Couuty Executive Committee. Thos. J. Klrkland, Chairman. C. W. Illrchmore, Secretary. Quality Printing? The Chronicle. Wiuit la th* dJffwcoc? beiwwu ? ~ - .wi ? ?nw* ut?P? / f] HUV7 ^ " ' ' _ ' ' "" Tlie U> kill, l>ut t|?? IliOOt liLtfcll kill* to <lreMM, Well Dressed Meats I ' -> I ?r-;' ' Once there ?u a Utu? 'twould make you laugh t? L| It hawl?thaA'a half. No* J Mil the beat of veal, w?U <j,J ed. It makes a dainty m?ij that 'a all. lSxcept a ?u?^Tcjj -?~buy your meat* here. ? 1 ' ??'' T 1 Campbell Eros. Hee tliu Motion l'lcturwt AM NtKt Wecfc t the Oper, p I A N O s I R G 1 WM A N m S IN THE PRODUCTION OF THE KIMBALL PIAfttM an active progressiveness is joined with over fifty years of experience concentrated on the effort to pro duce piano qtf&lity of the highest type. Piano custom-] ers WHO KNOW appreciate this fact, which e*J plains why so many of them say that the Kimball piano is the best. WHEN in the market for piano or organ, see the Kimball before you buy. Write for catalogue ftttd pnceiit State - ^ whether piano or organ is wanted. {& I ' ?'y J. W. MELTON, Factory Distributor for Kimball Pianos and Organ CAMDEN,' SOUTH CAROLINA ? ^ Make Y our Decision Now! ju,tly^n only time is n?w- BTjf y waneS the de?ring 'U8t 'Hat much harder? yCan m?nth* CVery dayC<f Will yoi/still let thHand^Wf.^whenlt co'Trl*' ?l L?Ur *iun?P ,and inve*tm,'S your farm? Will you have land i-W , easily be producing the best crop??f tax? and interest.Tv^ *nd '?? -?"? ?H|' ready cash any time you wish? Will prosPerou? acres tint you can convert a* U.-isaSfiafttL*' H<"1 L. C. SHAW^Agent, Route ^ ^lEFFERSON^