The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, April 04, 1913, Image 3
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The report that a distinguished
American write* was shot! during
1tf ]Ate troubles In Mexico at beet
000111b to be not more than half
i ras.**
ir anybody does any kicking about
ike new yurd-aod-a-half-wlUtt iklrta
H won't be the women who woar
jf an over-aupply of uuniuseled
rtW material running around loose
1? Auy n vi deuce, Dallas ought to of
fer a hpl?ndid location for a dog
gkln glovo factory.
Ifauy a girl consider* her educa
te in domestic science OQmptete
vkeu she knows how yto open a can
if sardines and a charge account,
I^jvo la not all hot chocolate and
lie c' Hi|i. Th#?y ,are iu?i^ly symp
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Weeds and objections are easily
raJaed and the crop Is always pro
Nearly every man has a tender
ipot. but it s just as likely to bo
#s his toe as In bisheart.
Toung men of twcuty^flve long
for * fori HIM' to spend, while men
or fifty wish they hAd ,iome of the
money they squandered whoa twen
ty-riv?.
All men are horn honest hut
noon loat their blrtbrtght.
When women enter politics, bet*
tin hats on the result of an elec
tion will ho an expensive proposl
i Ion.
Mulolshness l? sometimes mU
taken for willpower.
The man who can't make up his
mind about a tiling ought to know
Just what to do when 1?1h wife
makes up hers. " : ; ? y '
?sAJ>MINIHTKATItlX'H NOTICW.
All parties ndebted to the entate
of F. H. Alexander,. -deceased, are
hereby notified to make paymeut to
the" undersigned, and all parties
having claims agalnut the said es
tate will present them duly attest
ed within the time prencrlbed by
law. ' ?
(Mrs.) Belle Alexander,
Admlnlstrutrlx
Camdeu, 8. C., March 19, 1 9-1 ^ .
47-48-49.
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Helps With the Lessons
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At night when the children gather around
the sitting-room table studying their lessons for
^ _ the_next day, the Jefephoiie often rings. A little
neighbor a mile down the road wants help from
his school-mates. Children as well as grown-ups
get pleasure arid profit from the farm telephone.
Do you know how little this service costs and how
valuable it is ? ? '*?7* "*
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See the nearest Bell Telephone Manager or
write for our free booklet. A postal will do.
FARMERS' LINE DEPARTMENT
SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE
AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY
VS. PRYOR STREET ATLANTA, G A.
A popular tryHting plitce?
We Will Be
Pleased
To arrange witli you for the
best cuts of meat, either by
phone or at our counter. This
is* a rendezvous for meat, for
those who are particular about
the kind they eat!
(Omr
meat market, becauflo so wiftMy
| arrange for their meats here!
Wholesale and Retail
Grain, Corn, Oats, Flour, Molasses ,
Sugar, Cow Feed and
*
Poultry Feed
SPECIAL BARGAINS IN SEED IRISH POTATOES
Agents for Arab Horse Feed and Larro Cow Feed.
Congaree Fertilizers are the best? ^full stock
on hand of Top Dresser and Nitrate
of Soda.
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Dealers in . Buggies, Wagons, Moles and Horses
' rt
Full Line . Latest Improved Farm 1.
Implements.
Springs & Shannon
Ilvf I* ? . | w ?? >? .ttllxMl .
The world of smoker* ??Ff ranee i#?
to judge by loiter* a nil nitrmrraphs In
the newspaper, H'-iloU^ly ighuied by
a gggEft n touUy luhtty liy the govern
MM*nt dopartnuMH v. ulcU supt'rintfcmh*
the tobacco monopoly. It hi. a prderod
a suppl) of liuvaua Mad Murylaud to
baeoo tR-od for plantation* In France;
and it openly proclaims Its intention
of Milling tobacco raised from this
nt?wly imported n????d as genuine Ha
vttnn and Maryland It certainly seems j
10 be a proceeding of dubious com- {
njercial morality, and the assumption
that the peculiar fascination of a !
Havana cigar or a pipeful of Virginia
tobacco is due merely to the fact that
it Is growt^, from a certain seed, and
not to any unique conditions of oil
mate or Manufacture, seems equally
questionable. l>u t I ho final word hi
with thn monopoly. Westminster Ga
zette,.
How Carelsss!
Jlmmle Britt, not the pugilist, but
the oirousmau, tells a story illustrat
ing how soft-hearted and sympathetic
some of the ringmasters are when
the acrobats get hurt. The heroine J
of 1 the story was a girl who did the
four-horse act, the six-horse act, the
trapeze and the flying bar, for all of
which she received the princely re
muneration of |40 a week. One day
she fell 40 feet from the trapeze, land
ing precipitately and llladvlaedly on
her left wrist, broke the. bone near
the elbow, -The ringmaster ran up
and sympathized as follows, with oer
tain profane Remarks, which are here !
excluded: "What In thunder do you
mean by falling out of that trapeze T
I'm a son of a gun if some of you
ginks don't try to put a crimp Into
tkta show every time we lift the
tent! 'V- popular Magazine.
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Alligator Hunting.
It is a little more than ten years
since alligator skins were first export*
ed from Colombia; for five years one
concern bad a monopoly o { the puul
nesS in alligator skins from catching
the animals to selling and exporting
the skins and as labor is cheap the
exclusive government privilege paid '
well. Now any one cau catch thq
beasts, but tirtir privilege is. Hot what
it would have been five or six years
ago, as there are fewer alligators to
catch and the number is decreasing
each year, ub there Is a price obtain
able for each Bkin caught. Hunting
Is conducted jn the dry periods, De
cember to March and July and
August/ at which times the marshes
and flat lands, usually covered with
water, are drained and the alligators
are captured with comparative ease
and in great numbers. ? Pur News.
Go-Carts for Papoose*.
Blanket Osag6 Indiana whbhave a
liking for automobiles and other fea*
tures of modern civilization have ,tak<
en another step forward. The Osage
wcmen are abandoning the ianclent
aboriginal custom of carrying their
Infant offspring strapped to a board
on their baol^s. Recently ? a great
many of them have purchased the
fanciest go-carts they could buy and
now it is no uncommon sight in Tulsa
or other towns frequented by the
Osages to see an Osage mother,
garbed in a gaudy blanket herself,
pushing a baby buggy* ~ln~whlClTHFe?~
poses a little papoose, who seems as
contented as when strapped to the
mother's back, it is said the Poncas,
Otoes and other blanket Indians are
gradually coming to this custom.?
Tulsa correspondence Kansas City
Journal. , ? ?<
.Women Have Longer' Llvee.
The statistics of French insurance
companies prove beyond question that
women live longer than men; nor is
the feminine advantage in longevity
a matter of a few monthB, or even
years. The difference is one of al
most a third. Thus the average ago
of death forewomen annuitants on the ?
books of one company Is. seventy, and
for men a bare fifty. Another com
pany has several centenarians, all
womeh, on its books. This- company
Is now thinking of revising the tariffs
and making "one law for the man and
mother for the Womafi."
To Keep Hands of Motorist Warm. -
Another new comfort has been difr
covered for the automobile driver.
0 very, motorist knows how uncomfort
able his bands are tar biting bliz
zard, or even on a still but cold day.
To make life more agreeable an in
ventive genius has patented a hollow
tteering wheel, Into which exhaust
gasses from the motor are conducted
by means of a small pipe rtmnlng
parallel to the steering column. In
the case of electrics, the hollow rim
Is filled with electric "heaters."
Clap cif Doom Figures.
If life has got to where there is one
oase of canoer to every seven people#
then build us a palace of 0eath, as
arged by noted old Nobel.' for it seems
rs if aH^the promises of mercy are
?b*ms, These one in seven figures are
the clap of doom figures given out by
in English cancer expert visiting *tbis
country. Nobody over here should be
silly enongh to swallow sneh stuff, for
probably one in forty is an inch or
two past the mark.
fbi wii - uni tmmmmmmaMx:? ? ~
? ? Pheasante Become Plague.
So numerous have pheasants become
In the state of Washington *ln three
years Of closed season that "they are
becoming troublesome. Electric su
burban cars have on numerous occa
sion been cofnpeTIed to slacken their;
speed to permit the birds to get off the
I HIS UNKNOWN Bi ML
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8y LOUIS e. CHARLTON.
They were both In the chorus Kvery
nt}.h> they S*Bg love b&llad* and non
sense rhyme*; flanhed for uu hour or
two tn spangled garments behind silt
lights, and then wont into <lmk
and forget fuinrrn again. They
were only of the mob. They might
?$Vo <il?<i any day. either of them or
both, and the manager would m<-fly
have written a letter, or nodded a
word, and hardly a soul In the next
night's audience would huve known
that there had been a cliango In tho
chorus.
And yet these two of the chorus
were a*t far above the common lot of
niumpiers and onlookers alike. > They
Were lovers. When the opera demand
ed that they sing the chorus of a
drinking eong, the eyes of these two
met and drank to each other the In
toxicHting song of silent love. When
their hands met in some stately min
uet or mazy peasant dance, the thrilL
of shrinking, fearfully sweet pleasure
touched them both. The people be
jrotid the footlights saw none of these
thingn. Every night he waited until
she came from the big dressing rooms,
he opened the door of the stage en
trance to let her pass out, and with a
smile and tender adieu, she was gone
into a world he knew not- SeVeral
times he had tried, when it had been
fierce weather, to aeoompany her to
her home, to lend her aid, protection,
but no, she had always gently declined
thene offers, and so they both came
nightly out of the unknown, danced
awhile in the light of a love that nev
er sp<)ke, and went out again into the
unknown.
But one night he was waiting for
her sooner than usual. Bager and
trembling he waited for her coming.
~. He held out his hands to her. She
hardly knew why. but she took them
in her own and looked Into his face
wistfully. VWell," she said timidly.
"Oh, Fan," he said, "you know what
I mean. I love you, that's all. Long
ago^ I told you with my deeds, and
.you* understood. But that is not
enough* Now, Fan, I must know. Will
you be my -wife? Strange is it not,
that I hardly dared ask before?"
Pain crept into her faoe as she list
ened ? pain that struggled with Joy.
"Yes," Bhe said in low agitated
tones, "I knew that you loved me. I
knew ? and ? I loved you, too ? dear. I
love you now ? but ? I cannot marry
you ? I cannot."
Her head dropped upon his breast
and she sobbed softly. Then she held
herself erect and wiped away the tears
quickly. "You understand." she said
dully, Insistently-^-"! cannot marry
you." -
An awful thought came to Mm as
she spoke. Could lt. be that she was
already married ? ?belonging to anoth
er? Mow should he have known? Had
she not always gone Into the unknown
and forbidden him to follow? And
there came to his lips that cry of
thousands like him, thousands of lov
ers In whom a sudden Jealousy creates
a frightful monomania of suspiclan.
"Ah, tfaen there is ? somebody else!"
Why is it that lovers always think
-that because they are not chosen some
one else must needs be? Is there no
such thing as a woman who refuses to
love simply from disinclination,' in
stead of from a previous exhaustion of
the sentiment?
But in thitf case the girl nodded her
head and said:
"Yes, there is somebody .else."
"Then why," he retorted, with quick
anger evolved from his passive grief,
"did you not tell me so before ? with
your eyes? Why did they always say
'Yes,', if your lips wejre to Say 'No?1
You are cruel. How is it possible?
And he? -Vrho is he? Ah, Well, what
does it matter? You have turned my
day into night. I will go away into
" ' M '
He turned to go, but her n^hd was
on his 8ieerarrr.~:'
"8top," she ? said. "Come with me.
I, will show you the somebody else.
And It. is you who are cruel. Do I not
say. that Move you? Come." ? ? - ?
Thus for the first time he accompa
nied her into what *waB to be no more
the unknown.
They reached the house at last. She
opened the door and beckoned him' to
follow her. In the dim, shabby rftom,
he saw a figure lying oh the bed , a
wasted, shrunken figure that breathed
heavily. L '
"This," she said, 'is my mother.
She is dying inch by inch of a wast
ing disease. Every moment that is
not spent at the theater I must devote
to her. Every thought of mine must
be for her and her comfort She, she
has so lltle left of life. Would you
have me deprive her of the care she
needs?"
A lump came into the man's ihroat
and seemed to wish to stick there for?
ever. He choked a little hoarsely, and
when he had found his voice, asked:
"And is this ? the somebody else?*
She nodded, and turned to the bed,
but the visitor picked her up in his
arms suddenly and covered her fece
with kisses.
. "You are an angel on the stage and
off." he whispered in. a voloe which
had a suspicion of tears in It. But
why didn't you tell me at first?" ?
^.-.VBeoanse," -ehe said, -"you wouldn't*
let me."
And now a 'certain member of the
chorus is daily trying to postpone hi
marriage by bis self-eacriftcing ten
derness in nursing the somebody else. "
He is doing It to ease Pannle's bur
den. But poor somebody else has not
long to linger with them, and some
day t^ere will be a wedding ih the
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all business entrusted to us. in such fair
and liberal manner as to make all pa
tron's relations with our Bank satisfac
tory and profitable.
The First National Bank
OF CAMDEN, S. C.
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1 OF CAMDEN, S. C
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