The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, December 25, 1913, Image 4
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
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Cam dm. Soulk Carolina,
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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