Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A Postal Brings This Book j ft i It is free? it tells how you can have local and long distance telephone ser- l vice in your home at very small cost. i .. ? ' ? . ? ' " ' ' ' ?' '?/ V- ?' ' ?*' * ' .? " ?/ " ? ;# ' ? .-J Send for it today. Write nearest Bell Tele phone Manager, or FARMERS* LINE DEPARTMENT SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY 2*0 S. PRYOR STREET ATLANTA, CA. ATTENTION We have a specially equipped Feather Department with a large force of trained workers for the manufacture of the highest grades of New Feather Work of all kinds from the best selected South African fea ther stock, which we import direct. We will be pleaded to mail you a de?cr?ptive folder upon requeit. FOOTER'S DYE WORKS CUMBERLAND, Md. 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 WHEN THE FIRE IS ALL OVER WHAT THEN ? - If you aren t insured you face a Dead Loss probably running into thousands. IF YOU ARE INSURED you want the money quick, so insure today. NO^ , with us and KNOW that if you suffer a fire loss you will obtain a prompt, fair settlement of your claims. WILLIAMS INSURANCE & REALTY COMPANY ( 1 nn >r >ra I imI . ) 1012 Broad Street Camden, South Carolina PUT 01 THE SHELF * ? .. " . ' iv ? ?> By CORA JOHNSON. Tho Blcfclasas had not the leaat 14m j w hs it vm lupfwlAg to Umoi Th-ay | merely thought U)?7 v?r? giving plwmii to their child. Nov. there la a great difference la people ? and j the Blcklesea were entirely of the ' other aort. Tbejr were lively and up* todate and wjojrwl life and belonged , to a dancing club, even though Evan geline waa fifteen? and Mrs. Blcklee Had never been guilty of Maying: "Oh. I can't wear that color any more ? It'a too giddy for uny age'" Nor had Blcklea yet come to the point where he rattled the evening paper and ' growled and yawned and cried! *"Ob. confound It! Have I got to get dreaaed to go out tonight? ' Why can't we ever stay at home comfortably?" "It will be very nice for Evan go line to have the first meeting of ths P!ve Hundred club here. I'm aura," ' Mrs. Dickies said one day- "It la certainly time that she waa forming a circle of friends." "Yes," Blckles hsd agreed. "I en Joy having a crowd of girla and boys , I playing around. Bomehow, the last three or four years there hasn't been such a mob here." ''Well, they get beyond the doll and j top age, you know," Mrs. Hlckles ei- I plained "There has to be something ! nowadays to draw thein together," The day before the meeting of the club Evangeline fell back limp and pale at the casual mention of elder and doughnuts. 8he regarded her maternal parent with something very much like pity and mingled with a lively horror. "Mother!" she murmured faintly. ~Why, I'd die If you served those! Why, Sissy Splnks Is coming and you know I was at her luncheon two weeka ago, and they had six courses I . ? , and orchids In the middle of the table ] and mslons from Egypt and a dessert -j ! that looked like' a tower and you bit ! into it like ice cream and it was ' something else all frothy. We'll have j to hare real tilings from a caterer ? j "We will r.ot !" decided Mrs. Bickle9, j firmly. "I don't approve ax all of act* ing as though babies were grown-up i people! Hut I'll have a salad and ? some delicious sandwiches if you'd . rather! " ; "I hope you'll come down and meet them, rsother, that evening," Evange J line add^d kindly. Mr3. Bickles almost wept when ! she rehearsed this to her husband. [ On the. evening of the club meeting Bickles chanced to be upstairs obey ; ing Evangeline's orders. For Evan ! g^line had cast a horrified glance at him after dinner and had ordered hira , to shave at once and put on shoes in stead of house slippers. "You don't t need to get into your tuxedo," she 1 called after him. "Just your new business suit!" ! Dickies nearly cut himself twice thinking about this. His head whirled slightly. "For a parcel of children!" ? he repeated over and over, in a be wildered tone. Downstairs he heard the noise of arrivals and the subdued murmur of voices. A little later Mrs. Pickles came to him. She had a curi ous expression about h^r mouth. "l*oys and girls all here?" Bickles ask? d as he vh rugged into his c.<a\ "Yes," said his wife rather faintly. "The ? the boys and girls are here!" "I'll run down and say hello to them, then," Bickles said and trotted j down&taiw-,- . I He pause<f.,l?? the doorway of tho-l livir.g room. A ycunc?ter six feet tail j unfolded himself from the near* st ; chair. Another youngster apparently j six inches taller than the first Or.e j rn>o and stretched out next to htm. A I! over the room young giants wer? J ? rir.fr.cr from their chairs. Scattered j among th?-m pat self possessed young j wr men They regarded Bickles with i cool, level eyes, rather critically. "Good evening," said the. ycung ! giants with polite <*>ndescension. Bickles had to reach up to shake hands with them. "Er ? " he began and then stopped. He had Intended to say something about pitching in and having a sood time, but it *#as manifestly lmpossi- j ble for him to speak pitronizir.c!;. j " I am plr\d to hivp.met you." he said ' pclerr.j.ly Th~e he timed and went u;? ' pt?!rs i In the li'tle sitting rr?om he found ' Mrs liickU r "Shelved"' Hickles murmured. "For j the first time shelved to the up?;^.rs while our daughter entertains in tlit.* , pnrlor belOm !" "And it's Just the beginning!" add?*d )'??. Bickles a little sad'y ?Chicc?'"* ! Daily New a. "Good Evening," KEEPING THE BOYS STRAIGHT V.-/ --.-w.-. Father Fore* of Appeal to M??l<n?Mw mn<* ft Hm Worked Wrfl. Rcrtn! gray-toured bmtowt mm | *v ?tetstly tbuZsJU* over their c%>n ThU talk aboat mother and the j boya ta ai> ??ry wall.** said one "Hut j fmiLtft ?on?a ta strong. too. My j father demoted one minute ft day to^ 04 boys that did mora at that age to keep ua straight than all the Utile mother's admoattfooa. She was a sweet unworldly little person and we adored her and reverenced her teach ings. However, she never ctould think of us as anything hut her little boys, and as we grew taller and more worldly we acquired the usual hoyish sense of exalted lm*prtance and might hare been led to secretly pat ronize her strict goodness as a little old fashioned, except for father. 'Tather saw the force of appealing to us ax man to man, long before there mas much man In ua, t guess. Every night at dinner, I can see him yet, after the bleating, with his carv ing knife and fork poised over the roast, paose and look us straight in the eyes "'Well, boya. how goes the world?* "And you better believe the thought of that moment steadied us often dur ing the day. Wp had to keep pretty straight to be ahW? to return that clear look and answer: "'O. K., Dad*" TO TELL CONDITION OF MOON Rule Is 6imple. the Chief Idea to Keep in Mind Being the Con trariness of the Planet. Pew people can tell at a glance whether the moon is waxing or wan ing. Here Is a whimsical rule to re member by. It Ib very simple to those who know I^atin and is not dif ficult for those who do not. The first thing is to notice whether the moon is like a D or a C? that Is, whether the full semi circular curve Is on the right or the left. If the moon shows a D that naturally stands for dis credit, "It wanes " (, Rut then comes in the grent prin ciple Luna semper fallasc (the moon Is always deceitful), and one has to understand the opposite of what the moon says, so that a moon which shows a D is a waxing moon, while a waning moon is like a C. Those who have no Latin will no doubt look to see whether the moon | says it is decreasing, in which case they will understand that it is wax ing. while a waning moon will deny that it is decreasing. Oyez! Oyez! Oyezl One may not be ignorant, perhaps, j that French. . old French, remains as the language used in certain royal.! proclamations in F!ngland. So when "the king's assent" is given before the throne in "the painted chamber," the clerk cries in the lan guage of our fathers, "Le roy le veult" j ("TheMdng so pleasee"). If the bill ; that he is ask *d to approve is a money bill the clerk adds after a profound obeisance: "The kin? t>.anks his good ! subjects, accept? their benevolence 1 and is pleased." The proclamation on I ascentfinj: the throne is preceded by j; ! the traditional call of the French her | aids <nf former times: "Oyez! Oyez! ; Oyez!" Alas, tfiat time has disfigured this ' old word of our country, and toda^ the phlegmatic English herald cries thrice to t<he people: "O yes! O yes! I O yes!" ? Le Cri de Paris. Charlotte Bronte and M. Heger. The discovery of four new Bronte letters, reopening the question of Char lotte's feelings for her Belgian school master, makes it interesting to note that her first impressions of M. Heger j were far from favorable. Mrs. Gas kell in her "Life of Charlotte Bronte" ? quotes the letter written after her j arrival in Brussels: "He is professor j of rhetoric, a man of power as to mind, j but very chok*ric and irritable in tem- ? | perament. .... A little black be- ; ing, with a face that varies in expres ! sion. Sometimes he borrows the linea- ' ments of an insane tomcat, 6ornetimes j those of a delirious hyena; occasion-1 ally, but very seldom, he discards ! ihese perilous attractions and assumes p.n-a:r not above one hundred degrees '"removed from ? mild and gentleman like." Remote Origin cf Alcohol No one knows when alcohol was first made. It is commonly taught that it was fir?t distilled by the Ara bians about the tenth century, but there is little doubt that they obtained the secret from Italian doctors, who had long been practicing it Paul I Richter, in a recent number of the Berliner Klinische WocbenfichrilL, . r Bhows thai a knowledge of "aqua I irdens," or "burning water." may be ? traced as far back as the second cen- i i tury A. D., to a Christian father , l aamed Hippolytus, who possessed a L recipe analogous to those handed : ibout during the middle ages . Origin of Billiards in Doubt, i Billiards is believed by some to iave been brought from the east by ' .he Crusaders, while others claim an English origin for it and find it allied 1 I x> the game of bowls. Still others . insert that the Prer.ch developed it I from an ancient Gorman game. It ?eems pretty certain that the first per son to give form and rule to the ' p\mo was an artist named Henrique Devigne. who lived in the reign of Charles IX. One writer sues in bil- - [ Hards the ancient game of paille- ; maille pi&ved on a 'able instead cf on i the ground, and this is indeed a very j i reasonable assumption. SIMMONS' PROLIFIC COTTON 11 1 ? l i ii. v' ' r. ?' ? ^ ? ? Puis the farmer at an advantage because be U first ? in fhe market with bit crop. THE EARLEST COTTON IN THE WORLD. NiMly D?y? Fro* PUatin? to Boll. Grow# More C>?ton to the Acre. SUPPLY IS LIMITED ? ORDER QUICK I <r* ' ? Hie Only Genuine Sold in Thin State. W. H. Mixson Seed Co., Charleston, S. C. Sole DU|ri^utorn for Sooth Carolina 't ' AUo AH Other Seed. Writo for Catalog. YOUR CHANCE ' - ' t ? ? . * ' _ ' ? ? . . ? "J to make a safe and profit able investment is at hand Ik Wateree Building & Loan Assn. Will issue its fourth series next month. . The time is getting close at hand. Shares $1.00 each per month. Put aside a few dollars TO GET A HOME while the chance is up to you.. This is no "*hit or miss" game you play at?It make* a hit every time. Ask any of the hundreds of people who have tak en stock in the liuilding and Loan Associations if they have ever had reasons to regret it. MAW is Your Time v/ if to Subscribe for as many shares of stock as you wish. One (1,000) shares will be sold. Six hundred and sixty-six (666) of these have al ready been taken, and the /subscription list is less th^n a week old. Call at The The First National Bank and subscribe for the stock, Mr. John T. Mac key, Secretary and Treasurer, or subscribe to the list Mr. W. R. Hough has when he calls upon you. . <? iV- V Camden Steam Bakery MANUFACTURER OF BETTER BREAD New Every Morning Fresh Every Evening ;t Ask Your Grocer or Phone Us for Better Bread Camden Steam Bakery A. J. BEATTIE, 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 Subscriptibn