Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Sold Hogs by Telephone A South Carolina farmer had a large number of hogs which were ready to kill. The weather was so warm that killing was out of the question. He went to his telephone, called a dealer in Columbia over Long Distance and sold his hogs at a good price. He then called the local freight office and arranged for shipment. The telephone is now a necessity on the farm* You can have one on your farm at small cost. See the nearest Bell Telephone Manager or send a postal for our free booklet. FARMERS* LINE DEPARTMENT SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY 210 S. Pryor St., Atlanta, Ga. A SPECIALTY IN WHICH WE EXCEL, Is the Dying of Slippers and Hose in Colors to harmonize with Gowns or Customer's Samples. Satin Slippers and Silk Hose give best re sults. We have special facilities also for cleaning and refinishing. ? FOOTER'S DYE WORKS CUMBERLAND, Md. America's Greatest, Beat and Moat Complete Cleaning and Dying Establishment. TO THE PUBLIC I am still in the Drayage business and solicit your work. All orders for Coal and Wood you will kindly give to The Camden Fuel Co., as I have sold that part of my business. J. B. ZEMP Our Bonding Company gives you the above happy combination in its Bonding Service - it is reliable, thorough in its service, and its rates are genuinely moderate. DON'T TAKE CHANCES bond the employe or a^ent. Permit us to quote rates. WILLIAMS INSURANCE & REALTY COMPANY ( I ncorjK>rHt?*<l. ) 1012 Broad Street Camden, South Carolina Linguietio The following are a r> linguistic whlinsleulltle??: The (Jeruiautf cull * <ulmbl? u "Anger lull," which it c?r inly hi, h in i h griiMvhopper a "hay . > He." A glove with them 1* a "hand bog," showing evidently that they ; .ore iIiih'n before gloves. Poultry In ?rather rattle," whilst the names of ie well known HiihHtaneeM oxygen ami .trogen are in their language "sour j , ulT" and "water stun"." The Krtocli, i range to aay, have no verh "to stand," ? run a Frenchman speak of "kick : i;;" any one, The nearest approach a viH'hinan maken to it In Ills polite | il'Sh in to threaten to "give a i>iow lih hia foot," the Hume to (lie re ' iplei.it in either ease, hut it aeeniH to j hi the directness, the energy, of our Ink," Neither has lie any wor<l for I ? 1 1 ?.v" or for "home" or "comfort." j'he terina "upstairs" and "down* lairs" are iiIho unknown in French. 10 IIIndiiH are said to hiive no word or "friend.," The Itallann have no M'llvalent for "humility." Loudon ''itlcr. Queer Resemblances. That persons who live together for i very long period not only accpiire the me maniierlHiuK, but grow a strong .'.tela I resemblance, In an established ?'art. Hut it Ih little known that the -?Mini' condition often exists from mis i less and servant being associated to gether for a long period of yeurs. I'hero Is usually. II strung desire on tile part of most servants to ape their mis tresses, and this, added to the fact of < oustant nearness, often extends to fa cial resemblances. There are in a small town in New Vork state two unusual instances of this kind. Two widows live there, each of whom has Ween attended by a woman servant for more than forty years. In both cases the servants have become ho like their mistresses that (hey are often mistaken for them, and their cases have attracted attention far and near. Their voices over the telephone are so alike (hat friends of the women have given up (his method ,'f communication.- New York Sun. Word# That Speak. Bang? "a kii<1(1<mi noise like that from, .1 kuii" 1h the <l?>ft ill t (on given by 'the dictionary. But the explanation 1h be ?'ogglng and futile, for a "bang" la well. what bettor describes it than that simple word itself? So many of our most expressive words Heein sliullaiiy to have sprung from a desire to form with the lips a sound mimicking the thing described. Ahy waste words on a delinitlon of tlx* word "splash." for example? Tfou h'Tir nil the abrupt, restless heaving of ho waters in that one word. And does oven a baby need to be tTild what "buz/'' means when a blue In. (tie is leading a forlorn hope against she window? "Tinkle." "whistle." "whine." "gur rle." "eaokle." "ley" these are only a few of our other eloquently descriptive words.? Ixmdon Answers.' . Not His Place to Laugh. Hickory Wood, the pantomime writ er. used to tell an aninsine story of a theatrical manager who once shared his box at a provincial pantomime? When the principal coniediiiu entered i ? i? I did bis best the manager, with a i'liwl on bis brow, leaned over to Mr. Wood and remarked. "I want to en ?'Mgo that man for ne\t Christmas in ?\ production." I >o you think ho is funny V" Mr. 'Wood asked. "Screamingly funny." returned the "i:: nager. "Then why don't you laugh?" aske<! Mr. Wood. "I. a ugh when bo's got his eyes on me?" replied the manager. "And ev ery smile moans that he'll ask another ?ivor a week." ? London Telegraph. Not Guilty as Alleged. The man had boon accused of com mitting an annoyance by Hashing a t;:irn?r in the eyes of passorshy. ' Von itrc quite mistaken." he said to the big policeman. "1 haven't any ;i irror. What those people saw was the reflection of my shining sorgo coat. I'm a married man. and the coat is four years old." \ j:<1. turning hastily, ho threw the ? 'v/zling retloctlon from his back and o!!? >ws into the policeman's dazzled e. cv. And by the time the otlleer re nr, ered ho was well on his way. ? ? lev eland I'lain I >oalor. Women In Coal Mines. In the early part of the last century '?omen enjoyed the ritrht to work in lie* < o.?l mines of Croat Britain. swing r lt the sledge, or on hands and knees hinting through the midnight dark-. :.e-N of low roofe<l tunnels carts laden n it!> ore weighing hundmls of pounds. Have To. Vounc Bllfer and Miss Wapple fell out yesterday." "1 ?o you think they .vill make up again?" "I'm sure Miss Wapple will. They fell out of a motorboat "?Birmingham \ ire- Horn Id. Greatness. The truly strong and sound mind is t he mind that can embrace equally great things and small 1 would have :i man groat in groat things and ele tr:i n t in little things. ? Johnson. Our Coal Deposits. The known coal areas of the Tinted States cover IUO.ooo square miles, and there arc lfU'UX"*) square miles believ ed to be underlaid with marketable , f j. j | The pleasure we be*? ctimy 1 <s that we havrt <livlilod with others FASHIONS ROSEBUDS OF IRON New Jsrssy Blacksmith Probably the Moit Skillful Metal Worker In ths World. Lou la Van lloeckel, the blacksmith of a small Belgian hamlet, has won more than local fame by bin skill In faahloulng flowers from metal by means of the tools of nis trade. He has an American rival, however, In the porson of Jamea (.'ran, a blacksmith whoso smithy Is In I'lainfleld, N. J. "It 1k interesting to watch this ttmlth make a rose," Hays a writer in the New York Hun. "He first fashions the core, and then forge* the smaller petals, hammering the ends out flat. Next, he taken a contrivance shaped llkt? a screw-driver and opens the out up petals first. . . . After hollow ing out the petals, he grasps the iron rosebud In a pair of tongs, thrusts it Into the (ire, and heats the stems of the petnln. Ho takes it out of the fire, and hammers the stoma into a aolld mass. "He forms the larger petals In the Name manner, and having thus made the complete rose, he grasps It with larger tongs, heats and hammers it \galn, and Anally puta the red-hot, glowing mass in a vise. "All tho different parte of the flower/ ho forgos separately. He makes the veins, or radical ribs of tho leaves,, with the peen of the hammer. The name tool, when it Is slightly tilted, and Its blowB directed to the outside of tho leaf, makes the serrated edges of the leaves. Ho first holds the piece from which tho leaf le made in the tongs and heats and flattens it on the anvil. He forms the center rib in tho leaf by letting that part lap over the edgo of tho anvil while ho flattens the rest of the leaf. "Mr. Cran works entirely from mem ory, and uses no model. His Bkill In metal working is said to be greater, than that of Van Hoeckel himself." < HUMORS OF THE CHINESE WAR Foreigner? Got Much Amuiement Out of Doings of the Very Serious Native 8oldler?. Humor, of a grim sort, of course, abounded In the revolution which es tablished a republic In China. Fred erick McCormick, in "The Flowery Republic," tells of the formation of a corps in the. north who gloried in the title, "Dare to Die." The rebels in Canton were not satisfied to adopt this term from their brothers, and delighting in the superlative and ex treme, called themselves the "Deter mined to Dip." The first were merely willing martyrs, but tho Cantonese were desperate for death. A foreign >vag dubbed thorn the "Much Wanchee Dies." "Among tho various military organ izations that sprung up in Canton," says Mr. McCormick, "was a company of bomb throwers called the 'Bomb Pioneers.' Their uniform was a light bluo foreign knitted underwear that fitted them as their crwn skins. They wore brown knitted socks supported by American garters. Over the un derwear they wore shoulder braces .from which were stretched across tho breast white bands bearing the name of their organization. Their leaders wore blouses and caps and carried Bwords. In parades they sometimes carried arms full of bombs and were In danger of blowing whole streets to atoms. In public meetings on two occasions thero were accidents in which numbers of people were killed and wounded." Sea Monsters. . That "thresher shark" of fabulous dimensions Just caught on the south coast of England is fast becoming a formidable rival of the sea serpent a.nd tho big gooseberry. He is fairly :ommon during summer around Corn wall, where he does great damage to pilchard and mackerel nets, In which he completely finds himself, like a caterpillar in his chrysalis. The thresher Bhark is also called the sea fox, from the remarkable tall, which tio uses to frighten shoals of fish, and so make them more easily caught. There are sailors' yarns that this whlpliko tail is sometimes used for flogging whales to death. But the real persecutor of the whale is the gladiator dolphin or sword grampus (Delphlnus gladiator), a very carniv orous fellow, who kills and eats whales, seals and even his brother porpoises. 8hakespeare In California. The Los Angeles board of education, acting upon the advico of School Su perintendent Francis, has excluded j "The Merchant of Venice" from tho schools. "I do not believe," says Fran- | cis, "that 'The Merchant of Venice' cor- ; rectly portrays the character of tho ' Jew. There are many fine traits of Jewish character that are not brought out in Shakespeare's play." Why not excludo all of Shakespeare's plays? "Hamlet," for example, which tho | Francis type of mind would naturally 1 consider as suggesting that all Danes are morbidly semi-insane; "Macboth," j which Mr. Francis might presume to I imply that all Scotchmen are murder- ' ere. ? Sacramento Union. Solomon Generou# as Well as Wise, i A family traveling in a covered ' wagon through Solomon the other day had an opportunity to learn what kind . of people live In that town A horse I belonging to the travelers dropped J dead in its harness on the main street of the town. Tho family was poor and had no money to buy another horse, so the Solomon folks took up a colloctlon, bought a horse, gave It to j the strangers and sent them on their ' way within a few hours. ? Kansas City j Star SIMPKINS' PROLIFIC COTTON Pule the farmer at an advantage because he U first in the market with hie prop. ^ , THE EARLEST COTTON IN THE WORLD. Ninety Day* From Planting to Hull. Grow* More Cotton to the Acre. SUPPLY IS LIMITED? ORDER QUICK . The Only Genuine Sold in Thi* State. W. H. Mixson Seed Co., Charleston, S. C. Sole Distributor* for South Carolina Alio All Other Seed* Write for Catalogue YOUR CHANCE to make a safe and profit able investment is at hand Ih Wateree Building & Loan Assn. Will Issue Kb fourth series next month. The time Is getting close at hand. Shares $1.00 each per month. Put aside tt few dgJlars TO GET A HOME while the chance is up to you.. This is no '"hit or miss" game you play at ? it makes a hit every time. Ask any of the hundreds of people who have tak en stock in the Huildlng and Loan Associations If they have ever had reasons to regret it. MflW is Your Time llv/YY t0 Subscribe for as many shares of stock as you wish. One (1,000) shares will he sold. Six hundred and sixty-six (666) of these have al ready been taken, and the subscription list Is less than a week old. Call at The f) The First National Bank and subscribe for the stock, Mr. John T. Mackey, Secretary and Treasurer, or subscribe to the list Mr. W. R. Hough has when he calls upon you. Camden Steam Bakery MANUFACTURER OF Better bread New Every Morning Fresh Every Evening Ask Your Grocer or Phone Us for Better Bread Camden Steam Bakery A. J. BEATT1E, Proprietor TELEPHONE 49 CAMDEN, S. C. S. C. Buff Orpingtons FINE YOUNG STOCK FOR SALE (? And Eggs For Hatching ALSO FEW BARRED ROCK PULLETS FOR SALE BELLSHAW DAIRY FARM MRS. A. S. WHITE, Proprietor Pay Your Subscription