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NOTICE After January 1st jtil ?If Interest will l>e comput ed in the Savings De partment at t)ie Hank of Camden, quarterly instead of semi-annual ly as heretofore. THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE |?Jv<Ty l*'i'l<l<ly. IVr Aiiiiiiiii , , . , #1.00 1 * ? . * ? ? - ; . ' . II, I). NIIoh i fit IiIIhImmh. M. N . McDowell, . ^ Kolcrcii at itutd cU?i nail aatter at ike Po*tu((i<? al Cam dm. Soulk Carolina, llOII N, lli'oi?l St. - 'I'litMU' 20 < 4UU<I<'|?, s. < Dr?*. 20, HH;i. The philosopher of t h?* TomhiKbeo (Ala.) Clarion Hmih tells IiIh readers why Alabama farmers arc poor: "'Alabama farineers get up early at ( hi' alarm of a ('ont)oet lent flock, button their Chicago suspenders to foreign overalls, put on a pair of bootn made lit Ohio, wash in a I * i t tsburg basin, use Cincinnati noap, wipe on a towel made In Now Hamp shire, Hit down, eat hot blacult made with Minneapolis flour, Kansas City bacon, and (ndiano)>oliH grits, fried j in Omaha lard; buy Irish potatoes urown in Michigan, canned fruits put. up on the Pacific coast, season ed. with Rhode Island spices. The meal over, they put on an old hat made in Philadelphia, harness a Missouri mule, fed on Iowa corn, and plough mortgage covered farms with an Indina plow; at night they' crawl under New .Jersey blankets and nr<> kept awake by Alabama does - the only home products on lb place. No wonder t hey are poor." Nineteen daya after tho murder of ft. J'. Heat, a merchant of Harnwell, Hcott Madlaon, a negro, Monday, morning paid 4 he penalty for big ciime l>y electrocution at tho Htate penitentiary. Tho trial, conviction t nil exeeulon of Madiaon followed m Hwift huccohhIou after the corn miHHion of t lie crime, and afforded the inoHt atrriking example within recent yeara in South Carolina crlin- | inn! history of the facility with which court h may deal with crimi ? ? ?? 1 k. Tho electrocution Monday wan wHuenHod hy perhaps UO spectators, among whom were a number of clt i/.eiiH of Darn well. A. K. HanderB, of flagood, for tho past 15 years chairman of I he Ward of directora of the Htate penitentia ry, discusses proponed changes in the lawH governing the Htate peni tentiary, Mr. SanderH believes that alj prisoners under death Hentenco' ahonld he electrocuted under the di rection of the aheriffu of the coun ties from which they are sent. He also helleVeB that the General Ah aemhly ahould make Home provtoion for an official executioner. An automobile * manufacturing i plant, turning out 2,000 machines a ! year, will he one of Greenville's man nfactnring industries after the first of Febrtiary, according to the plana of the Victor Motor Car Company, which ia .coinmiHHioned with a capi tal stock of $1 00,000, to take over and' operate an automobile company | which lias been in operation li\ I'hil ! adelphia during the past fourteen S months. The incorporators are A. |(1. Dale and C. K . Mauldin, of Green I villc, and C. V. Stahl, Of Philadel. | jihia. Mr. Stahl is the designer. ANNOUNCEMENT We wish to thank the peo ple of Camden and Ker shaw County for the pat ronage extended us during the year, a?d with the clos ing of 1913 we take the opportunity offered by the occasion to sincerely wish for each and every one of you a full share of the sea son's joys and a peaceful and prosperous New Year. Respectfully, Enterprise Mercantile Co. IIKAI'TIPI'I* rtANTA SfYTH. Jl>0 Not I IUl< <? lw ||,t, On* * Alxuit Old HI. SU k. ir your daughter }? Just six or Heveu year* old and you are begin ning to feel your courfrlenee pinch you at deceiving her any longer with the beautiful myth o/ Sautjt ciaus, Just alienee that obiiHcleiice and waif until ! h. iiiiJ| Q|)| tin truth for heruelf. J It your daughter haw any llliniloiiv loft in this day ofc disillusion, lei her keep them. Hpe will fuel more resentment toward you for shatter ing them than she %will for deceiv ing her. You do ndi think li neces Htry to tell your grown up girl all the things you have discovered a* ; hout love and matrimony and there by terminate her dreams thai those i inytliH are all they seem to be, do you ? After all, the sweetest part of a i ; lrl'n life from babyhpod up 1h the . dieain part. Homy day she will find 1 out (hat there Ih flo Santa Clans and then ?lu? will find out thai there are no fairies, and then she will find out thai romance dooHii'l last, and then that matrimony has Us thorns, and then that women grow old, but why open her eyes to these things? Let a child believe In Santa Claim Juhi as long nn he or who will and j pluck the delicious fruit from the mythical OhrjHl mas tree to her heart 'h content. It Ih bad enough to dincover tlic sawdust In the doll of life when it begin# to fall out with* : out being told about it when you thought It Wa? really flesh and ! blood. If any mother's conscience is ' troubling- her about the Christmas fib telling just now, let her alt. down 1 and try to remember that awful day I when she first discovered that there wan no Santa Clans and that con- 1 science will shut up tight and nev- I er open its mouth again.- Rock Hill Record. THK MH'AI, NKWHrAPKH, There Is no paper that can take the place of the local newspaper. This proposition needs no domonstra tion. The local newspaper is a ne cessity. What would any place be without it? The Charlottesville Va., Progress has the following on individual responsibility in connec- j tion with the local newspaper:./ "'The efficiency and usefulness of ; a local newspaper must depend large j ly upon the aid and support of the j community in which it is published. "It cannot rise above the level es- 1 tahlished for it by the patronage It receives, and long survive. It Is ve- I ry seldom, the case, therefore that' the local newspaper is not a fair ex ponent of . the growth of the locality j which it represents. The very fact that more money is annually sunk in newspaper ventures than in possibly any other business- ^undertaking, is due in large in ensure, to the over zoaloiiSncSK of their owners to make them rather than to a failure to ' measure up fully to the* opportuni- ? ! t ies of their respective environments. . "'Since the ' whole ? community is! interested in the character and tin* j quality of its local newspaper, it j should become -a matter of pride and' duty of the members of such coin- j munity to do their part in making! Til MIR newspapper reflect a high or der of local public enterprise. "As ,loug as there are business i men who give little or no support to their local newsapcr they have j no rigln to criticise its failure 10 ' 1 be betlcr. As long as its readers j j withhold news which would be of j 1 interest to their community, and | which the local paper would be only too glad to publish, they have no right 10 complain, of the lack of its I local news. J "It is unfort unateU too often thej lease, that those who criticise local conditions, contribute nothing in the i way of personal effort, or sacrifice ?to better such conditions, being con- I j ten* to pursue a course which ren j ders still harder of accomplishment j ] the very ends they apparently desire: to have accomplished. "The question for each 'knocker' to answer is 'what am 1 doing to ; make possible the- Improvement of I my local paper and the conditions of! I the community in which 1 live?' " ' ! 1 i I'uts Itaii en Penny Xuiwuur. The latest official announcement | of Fourth Assistant Postmaster (Ion jeral LHakslee is welcome news to ev *?!>? rural carrier in the land. It ; concerns and relieves one of the most irritating features of the car riers' labors as postal employes, and for all time, it is designed to put i an end to yearly resolutions on the ; subject . Following a conference with Su perintendent of Mails Wood on Wed nesday morning. November Mr. H'akslee signed the following: ?' Postmasters at rural delivery of ' flees and rural carriers are direct ?>d to bing to the attention of patrons that it is the desire of the Depart ment that all first-class mail matter d< posited in rural mail boxes shall be stamped before being so deposil 1 ' When : ! is not prat t ica ble, coins .e| : m sue It boxes for the purchase of stamps should be deposited in ? dn-holding receptacles and not iti ? " < d in en \ elopes, wrapped in pa p< or left loost' in boxes. I'ostnias [( ? :i!ii| carriers should give this no tic. i much publicity as possible Wltho .' imuirini: an\ "\pense to th Depar . ? n? I>ietl Ignorant < t Sou's I'ate. N"ew Voris. I >et _'e The mother of former I'oii.e Lieutenant Charles Hi'cker. who .11 tin- death house in Sing Sing ..waiting execution for the part he ptay.d in die murder of Herman Koseiidiai. died a* her home here toda> She was very old am', had been bed ridden for years. She died in ignorance of her son's plight For more than a \ear she had not been permitted 'o rend a newspaper When her son Char Iri ceased to visit her, .ui.ii ln-r ?.<?h .lohn told her Charles was suffering from rheumatism and had been sent : o a sanitarium This explanation sufficed I' is about the ? -asics: diinu m the world for .. uirl to uet a hat dial i? t?e. online if she isr * o\er S X ' eel: Muoio. MiihIc Ih a Jolt l<?t of vibration* fur ^ liirihcd to hotel- :| litt it M?*4? iltH for tlu? purport!' of adding to thf dUeom fori of I III* CUl'HlM. \{ 1 1 h-I ? * Im h. mo uxed for ol her pur;wit *r); li < oi:)j;i In piano*, IliU'PK 'Mill Oiy;!||* lUld >OIIH't IllU'M. lliouvh nnvl.v. In ll I i??l ii r-; it ml p'joiio^rnplM, ll.'i J ?lt <h often furnlrt'i in ii si<- \vIh?IP I'MWI oXJttM'lJ'l 1111(1 Hi llojH'rt not iihvn.vrt ii ppi"' < \ < < I of I ?>' ri^pw'liiblp ' ? -oplij. MUhJi* 41 1 one I 100 un ; railed 11 lu'iiv only mil III. Hut sjiv I* now imoitly 1I<<1I11<I in ihuIImio ami U known 11 h Hbt#Vy In itlioVl. inii^l'' 1 111 ^ i'i"i I lit* scale from cljiHH|t' to < las?y. i Ufcu eug* inn) 01 li<?r . UlHjorlr ,hi*ck i numbers, music Is now kept in c>|d I sl<>|:i','i> and <oincs in reel* ?) |;?1 ClUW. ' 1 1 ii ii<liiiail<* iiiijslr is gradualh I ??? I iik ( superseded by 1 Im* factory imule nrtlelo. At oiii* Hme 1 11 iim1<', singular iih it li in y seem, wils 1 1 Ml 'I to make lillis|e, \'ow II Is used to make a llo|se. I ,i f<< Worth Looking At. A man wliii was wointM lllng of 11 gour ; 1 1 1 < ? t ordered 11 dinner for himself and , Ids parly which. from t Ii** menu. should Im vi* I ><??? 11 very palatiihle. Imt nppar 1 ently it was not so. Course succeed < *< l course, a 1 1 < J toward 1 ho end of the iii4*n I tin* IiohI could restrain 1 1 i 1 1 1 sol f no longer, lie* called up tlx* waiter ! ami expostulated. "I ordered a good dinner, ami we have waited patiently for Miine satisfactory dish Tim soup was a failure, the fish was a disap pointment. (lie entree uneatable, and I am sorry to tell you Huh during Hit; whole dinner (here lias heen nothing worth looking at." The Walter looked troubled for an instant, and then, brightening up. *mld, "11* you wait a moment, sir. I will bring you the hill." Chicago News. Little Jack Horner and His Christmas Pie With Variations In the Style of the Poets By CALI.Y RYLAND LITTLE Jack Horn?r sat in a corner . Eating his Christmas pie. He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum And said, "What a good. boy am I." If EcWar Allan Poe Had Written It. S?-?f JAck Horner in Ills corner I Willi his pie. W'lic/ie's his ina? \Vill no one warn her? . Y-. xv*:' t"i:' With n thumMot that is tinting Wliile \he|s i;l?).iiinK. Bloating, floating, lie fa Ifttflng for the floating Plum, oh. my! All 1 1 is I io.t I of being good. <.' irulul <>!' his daily food , Twinkles nu-irilv within his saucy eye.] ? ye. I Robert Browning Might Have Done It. | I'iistiy'.s all or nothing; it is not mere 'lotiuh I I'nunded and pu!l? <1 and pu/.zled over, sir. For whitened or for lightness? and this "; I 'i'-' Was of the very stuff *>' life, sir ? .N'oni' of your bitiuderiui; bits of work, but j Infinitely on table. Well. Horner sat there I Uutninatin^ Twas Christmas, ruminat ing time. Fou say. an<l you. are right, sir. J?a/.ily iilivo and open mouthed he sat. j Keel inn the pastry tickle at his lips. Vet scarcely knowing how to fathom It. ! When of a sudden? oh, the fellow's keen!? Occurred his thumb to him. whereupon Straightway he plunged It in the sweet. "Good boy!" quoth' he. atxl pulled out a damp plum This Would Be Walt Whitman's Style. 1 sing the Christmas pie. The flour, the lard, the butter that com pose it. The richness of its stuffing A dlvino nimbus exhales from it. It attracts with fierce, undeniable attrac t ion. I am drawn >?y its breath no less than Jack Horner, who holds it upon his knees. 1 am one with the plum concealed In Its mammoth vastness. I loosen myse'f. pass freely and am at : tlu- door of Horner's lips, smacking1 to taste its ingredients Hut he does not know how to get at you. I pie He sits, sleepily considering the pose of his head, his puffed out lips, betray ing his* gluttony Presently a line smile comes on to his i face. He lunges Into the pie with I tlrm thumb, lis crust yields. He possesses himself of its richness. Oh, young nu n. 1 w ould not have you sit in a corner <-onsidering pie stuffings He bold You ? u hoe vor yon are? are al lowed the eternal purports of a pie (1 loved a certain Christmas pie ardently, and tt gave ir.e indigestion. Vet out of that I ! \ e written this song ) In the Great William Shakespeare's Style. "Sweet : v. do not scorn tr.o, do not Kit. And frov.fi .it 1 1 1 < ? w , ? h crusty surliness. I know hi ymi- tlakv depths Is hid den A mait'.'.'n::; pun.. which.. Oils mv little ill.-: " J I'll have it -f I must > \\ : ri >4 for 't " Thus I .lao'V-' >. Who, t hi on. with swashing stab of] the thumb Smote t i-.: o ii; h the crispy lid. which erst ! held t ;c !. t. And with t- iun ph. iiit shout. "'Oils bodi kins. A prood l.nl ! wltV.diew the sought for Algernon CH.irles Swinburne's Styl*. | llcr.' win to tho world is qulot. Mrro Christmas day. With |'!';!v?i ti ixl a plo for diet. In .i c<r:.-r sat Horner. N w as ever sweeter. No t'nsor was over fleeter To yank a plum with gleo to A tiw:!h thrtt enpos nlw^y. I NEW CHINESE LAUNDRY To the People of Camden:?! have opened a Laundry at 539 Past DeKalb Street and will be glad to receive a trial order ;? will convince you that i KNOW 1 lOW and thin enables me to Guarantee Satisfaction All work done (n /Domestic Finish ?the steam laundry kind. Phone 167 and I'll send for your laundry bundle. Ask for a laundry list and note my prices. Yours for good work, JIMMIE LEE, 539 East DeKalb Street. CAMDEN, SO- CAR. Funerals Directed We supply the best of burial goods, con duct funerals and relieve families and friends of many unpleasant duties ince dent to death. We are always prepared to serve those who need our service. B. R.'McCREIGHT, CAMDEN, S. C. OXYGEN CARBON CLEANER We have installed an Oxygen Carbon Cleaner and can make your motor new like it was when first bought. ASK US ABOUT IT Camden Motor Co. Chic, Becoming, Exclusive, Ultra Smart, Fashionable These adjectives convey but inadequately the ex ' quisite beauty of the Fall Millinery on display here. -> YOU WILL FIND that this establishment's reputation for the finest millin ery is splendidly upheld by this Fall showing. Very reasonable prices. MISS MATTIE GERALD