The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, March 14, 1913, Image 3
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We have just received a car
Uad of fine HORSES and
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MULES and want you to call
and see them
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A good tliiio to sea}d one of tlif?
Children Jiere lor moata?
! When the phone is out of order
and you can't come yoorwl'l
YOU
ci*n send your children here
with the assurance that they will
return with as choice a cut of
meat as you would purchase
yourself. We seek, your contln
ued patronage.
Campbell Bros.
"Worth More
Than it Costs"
; Lots bf farmers declare their telephone service,
worth more than it costs. J. W. Harris, a well-*
writ^n ? e* ^vlnQ near Choccolocco, Ala?i
occasion to call our doctor not two
nours after my telephone was connected with
?1 ifi exchange. My mother, who is very old,
l o.ii 7s? the door steps and broke her arm, and
I 7J! t1? doctor. He was at my house before
oi.^ L.,ave *olle to his residence, as he has an
automobile.,
;XC would not be without our telephone for
"we than it costs and appreciate the assistance
^Ou rendered us." -
:ahr!^Ur b??klet tells how you may have tele
tbt ;?C s jmce w-.vour farm at small gosW Write
_ "today. A poster will do. ~ 7^
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FARMERS' LINE DEPARTMENT
PHKiELL TELEPHONE
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ATLANTA, GA,
The Point of View.
"This section is almost mountain
ous," remarked the pedestrian to his
companion as they trudged along a
country road one summer's day oar
rying heavy grips.
"Yes, it's a bit hilly," said the farm
er a few minutes later as he drove his
guest from the station in the big
buokboard.
"Nice, rolling country, this," ob
served the automoblllst to his chauf
feur as they whizzed by in a big tour
ing car.
"Qee, what a flat, uninteresting
region," thought the aviator, looking
down as he sailed over it in his ma
jestic biplane. ? Life.
A Fellow Feeling.
The hold up man had his victim
covered. Suddenly the latter, with
hands held up. broke into a violent
lit of sneezing.
Then the highwayman's face wrin
kled and he sneered, too.
Incidentally, they sneezed together.
"Shake!" gasped the footpad, and
put out his hand.
"Lay it there," wheezed the victim.
One touch of hay fever makes the
whole world kin.
- A- Timid Tradesman,
Clock Drummer ? I've got the finest
line of alarm clocks on the market,
Mr. Schmidt.
Schmidt ? Veil, you can't sell me
any alarm clocks dis season.
Olock Drummer? Why?
Schmidt ? Veil, I tell you. Dls Is a
year ven dey elect a bresldent. And
effery candidate, mlt all dem cam
paigners, vlll run apout de gountry
and 'view fait alarmsM"-? Judge.
WILLING TO OBLIGE.
Horace ? I *ay, old fellow, I wish
you would intercede for me with
that pretty niece of yours.
Harold-'-Sure, I will. Only the oth
er day I told her you, had more money
than brains.
Horace ? What did she say?
Harold. ? She wanted to know if you
had as much as 30 cents.
A Great Number. I
How many men go to the baa, .
Spend every cent they've ever had
And don't come baokl
frgg:;. Beau Champion Faster.
"Just fancy! There's a fasting man
who has beei* living for forty-Hre days
on water."
"That's nothing. My father lived
for twenty years on water."
"Go on!" *
"Yes; he was a sea captain.*
... Exonerating the Polloe.
""Yeq, sir/' %rerred the Hew York
th^ police?"
"Now hold on. I don't say thdfco*
lice were mixed up in it." **
Back to the Ranch.
"Mr. Spooned, isn't this the third
time you hate asked me to be your
wife?" ? ?rr~l . *
"1? I believe. it Ja, -Miss- Jennie^1 ?
"Well, you've fanned the air three
time."' SYou're put on strikes/'
A Lively One.
"I hear when you have your chil
dren gathered around you, it is quite
a picture."
"Well, when we all went^o our new
house, I can tell you it waBft moving
picture."
_E*gin?lvs apet
"Gilt Crest is considered a healthy
place, ye t all the guest* who leave the
hotel lodk sick."
"Oh, they don't look sick until they
get their WW . . . ...
A Silly Season Jeat.
Owens? Do y#u know, X ffnd it jeas
ier to borrow money inhot weather.
Bowns ? That's not surprising. Or?
dinary friends become warm Meade
uhon thi^l" IMg the nlweiiea.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE PIANO
Centuries of (Invention Have Boon
Needed to Bring It to Present
State of Perfection.
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Have you ever thought, when play
log, Domtt melodious sonata upou your
pifno, that tho Instrument, At M Is
today. Is the perfection of centuries
of Invention?
In the beginning It was a harp
shaped piece of wood, having two or
three strings, From time to time
tnore strings were added until the
clthara was Invented. This was atk
Instrument lu the shape of a capital
P. with ten strings stretched aeress
the open space. Many centuries after
ward musicians conceived the idea
Of stretching strings across an open
box. About the year 1200 this was
done, tho dulcimer madu Its appear
anew, and the strings were struck
with hammers.
For another hundred years or so
these hammers were held In tho
hands, and then some genius invented
a keyboard, which, being struck by
the finger?, caused the. hammers to
strike the strings. This was called a
clavlcytherlum, or keyed olthara, and
from time to time It was modified and
Improved.
During Queen Elizabeth's time It
was called a virginal, and then a
spin et. because the hammers wore
covered with the spines of quills,
which struck and caught the strings
and produced the sound.
During the period between 1700 and
1800 it wae much Improved and en
larged, and was given the name of
harpsichord. It was In 1710 that
Hurtholomeo Cbrlstofoll, an Italian,
invented a, keyboard similar to the
one we hare now, which causes the
hammers to strike the trlreB from
above, ant thus developed the piano.
' During the last century the inven
tive genius of musicians the world
over lias revised and Improved it until'
It has reached the present-day per
fection. "
SUDDEN ENDING OF ROMANCE
Task 8et for Reformed Tramp Was
Just a Little Mere Than He
Could Stand.
"Oh, yes, we have romances in our
lives." said the tramp. "bu'jt there la
always something to spoil 'em. 1
had my last one last fall. I was peg
ging along a Rhode Island highway,
thinking more of good feed than ro
mance, when a couple of wearies
ahead Of me turned into s farm
house. I turned In as well when 1
came along up, and I walked into the
kitchen just as they had locked a girl
up in a closet and were about to go
through the house. They invited me
to take a hand in their game, but I
took two In my own. They made it
Interesting for me for three or four
minutes, but the average Weary is
no boxer. He depends upon wild,
swings instead of straight punches.
I had 'em both down when the farmer
came up^from the field, and the girl
was released and the fellows sent off
to Jail. f_
"Well, currant jam, big red apples
and mince pies were .none too good
for me for the next week. The daugh
ter was a jichooi ma'am, about twenty
years of age, and I had won her ro
mantic heart ere three days had
passed. I think the old man would
have sanctioned the match, but he
didn't take me right. On the fourth
day of my stay he took me out and
showed me a ten-acre lot of thei- ston
iest ground I^eve^ saw In my life,
J and Intimated that I might start in
plowing next morning. It was too
much. That night I left the house by
way of a window, and daylight found
me seven miles away. I would have
helped gather apples or husked corn,
but when it came to plowing among
bowlders, as big* as barrels, romance
fled, and I followed close at her
heels." ?; ::
Hindu's Agonising Penance.
An extraordinary scene was wit
nessed In Calcutta recently when a
small trolly, studded with rows of iron
spikes, on which a Hindu was lying
at full length, was being pulled
through the streets. A large crowd
was following. Inquiries elicited the
information that the man was dojl^g \
penance, and ta-the
temple of the Goddess Kail at Kallg
hat. The Hindu had been several
days on the journey, and was in a
terrible condition. Thd spikes, which
numbered about 150 were quite sharp,
and the man wore only a loin-cloth.
He must have been suffering acute
pain from the fact that his body was
bruised and lacerated all over as a re
sult of lying on the sharp nails. Neith
er the police nor any passer-by made
any attempt to stop the self-imposed
torture. ? ? -
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Chinese Oysters. ?
A New York Chinese laundry man is
helping out hte daily breakfast with
native Chinese oysters on the hell
shell. The shells he brought along
with him from China. The oysters he
receives from China 4n the half bar? i
rel, dried and smoked
As they oome they resemhle some* i
what dried -appier or peaches. 'TPjUTi
lanndrynhm-phtees a mess oret night,
each ..oyster in a shell fall of see
?water, afd the nsact morning they
hare the *ptamp and Juiey attractire
ness of freshly opened oysters, and if
they did not hare so muclrthe lasfcu
of oaarated ham one might perhaps
deteeCma oyster flavor shoot them: '
The Ch hi a man says the oysters are
preserved in this way by first being
dried In the sun ad then ssaeked
with seaweed whieb. when bmmfesg.
has a smell lifce eyster soap. "*
Arc becoming more and more the custo
dians of the funds of the people of both
large and small means. This is due to
the wider appreciation of the tfalue of
banking service as its usefulness is ex- '
tended and its methods become more
and better known. If there is any fea
ture of the banking business you do not
tinderstand, call and we will gladly ex
plain tha same. *
The First National Bank
OF CAMDEN, S. C.
REAL ESTATE
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SELL.
Do You Want to j ?oan
BORROW
I May Help You.
laureNs t. mills*
CAMDEN. S. C.
HAVE YOU SEEN
THE NEW FORD?
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FORD CARS and a full line of FORD
PARTS always on hand
COME AND TAKE A LOOK
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D. C. SHAW
The ford man
SUMTER, S C.
Fresh this week:
Biscuit, Saratoga
"Sunshine"
ips, Hams,
aeon.