Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE H. T>. Nil*? *nd ~T~ E. N. McI>owell.. ? ) l'ubl labor#. . to llroad Street, ami entered ?t the Cam* (Jen lKwtottleo a? HOCOBd class nut i I mat tor. Price |mt annum Wo are Klad to receive communlc* t tons of a reason# bto length, l?tit an Important condition of their puhlica tion Ih that they hIuiII in all cumoh ho accompanied by the full namo and exact address of the sender. obitu aries, resolutions of respect, and church notleoM will not bo charged for. Mat ters of purely a personal nature will bo charged for ut the rate of live cents a line. Whiskey or patent medicine advertisement* will not bo accepted at any price. Hates for display adver tising made known on application. Camden, S. ?., February 11), 1915. The Siuklev bill. to regulate tin- hold lug of all primary elections ami the ga 1 i iza 1 1< Mi of clubs III clt ics ?eoii t a I II 1 UK lo.noo or more inhabitants, which ha>< heell passed hy hoth houses of t h?* < it'll era I Assembly. has been signed hy Coventor Manning. The prohibition referendum. provid ing' for an election on September I I on Slate wltlc prohibit Ion, has horn signed by ( ;?>\ t'l iior Manning. Tin- Chronicle received an advertis ing proposition tills week from the ( Mevelnml it HutYalo Transit Co. offer lug us yioo worth of transportation in I'Xrliiiimi' for nil vert ising, I he transportation Is good ??nly on the Great Lakes. What puzzles us Is how are we going to get money enough to get to the <Jreat Lakes. Ship I'urclmwe IIUl I 'asses House. Washington. February 17. ? The Cov eriimeut ship purchase hill. a.*? an amemlment to the Weeks naval aux iliary hill, was passed hy the House of Representatives at t.'JU o'clock this morning hy a vote of -lo to 1-1. The passage of the hill followed a 14-hour pari la men 1a ry struggle, which, until long after midnight threatened to extend interminably because of a determined filibuster directed by Mi nority Leader Mann, who yielded only after Administration leaders decided to apply " second rule to bring the 4ltr ti t to an end. When Minority Leader Mann saw that the Democratic leaders were de termined to stop the filibuster several conferences were held and the Repub licans decided not to keep up the light. A few minutes after I o'clock a vote on the llnal passage of the bill began. Profit In Reading. The man who reads is the man who leads. It is natural that this should he so. "The ancestor of every action Is a thought." says Linerson. and the richness or poverty of a man's read ing usually determines the richness or poverty of his thinking. The man who doesn't read gets his thoughts only from Tom. Dick, Harry and the others in a little narrow neighborhood right around him. The man who reads gets the thoughts of the foremost minds in his county, state, nation, ami the world. ^ A people are not educated it they only know how to read; they must actually read. If one goes to school weeks a ml *~Th >nt lis. year after year, learning how to rend, ami then does n't read ? if he is then too short-sight ed to pay a few cents a week for good papers ami books ? lie is like a man who spends days and weeks breaking a piece of land, getting it in shape for planting, and then is Loo foolish or stingy to buy enough seed corn t>r <?..( ton seed to plant it. learning how to read prepares the mind, cultivates it. makes il a fertile seed bed, but then ;i man inu-t (ill it with seed thought--. Hooks and papers furnish the seed corn for the ndn<i. When a man says lie is too pour pay two cents a week for a paper for inspiration, help, in tellectual f !. -c? d though'- for his whole family. a-l< him if lie ought to spend much 1 ? ? r brain food as he spent 1- for tobacco Make v. w neighbor! I a reading neighborly ?! ;.ml \ ou will make it a leading in k1 rbo,..| .loin in a move ment to tea h . i ' 1 grownup illiterates to read no\l y.-t' if you can. but in any case bestir ? ?ur-c.f to ^et all who can read to road r>' If they read papers that stand f progress they will eventually join win. on tn all the progressive movement- yu nr" inter este<| in. ? Progressive Farmer. To Our Subscriber-. in ordering a change of ad !rc-- our subscribers are respectful I.N' a-kc ' give the old as well as the n. . .. ' dress in older to have us the t: of having to look over soine two thou .-ami names. Also, in addressing <? :: inunleat ions to this office, send f !???:? to "The Chronicle." and not to any I" dividual connected with the paper. P\ observing these instruction* It wil' iviusc prompt replies to all inquiries. P. II Raw!, of lycxlngton. has be*n elected a trustee of Clemson college to succeed W. T> (Jarrison. resign ?dy Walter I*. ?l?uw?ll,iitfao young ma chinist who wmh ho badly Injuwl by being WUIlHI- ^ ^1"* fho Southern fottou Oil Company's Kluiiery at Florjsivw* about ton day* ago and wlw hl>d to have lib' arm nmpu Utedat the sHoulder, died Sunday evening (jit the Florence Iiiflruinry. Mr. l?ow*ll was about ~d years old aiul leaves a wife. ,M?rriwl. Married. on Sunday. February t-tth, Mr. V. 10. I taker and Miss J ante Twit-: ty, both ??f Camden. Judge of Probate McDowell ottlclutlng. Married, oy Sunday, I*'''!'. 1 Itb, Mr I,. T. lloriiHby ami Miss Nannie l'?. Mar Held. both of Cantey. Judge of I'robate McDowell officiating. Mr. John |{. Water*, of Florence, S. C. it ml Mis* Leslie Watkins, of Cain i li>n , were married at the home of the I, ride on Fair sheet, on Friday last. Feb. llith. Itev. .John A. Davison of the Camden Haptlst Church ofllelatlng. The Comedy of the l!pp? Berth. ( >| lie .lames Is n biff man personally and politically, lie Is a l ulled States senator from Kentucky, and he weighs a trltlc more than .'lot) pounds. (>n one occasion. In traveling fiom New York to Washington, he barely cauy lit the midnight train, and dls covered that the only berth left was an upper. Having learned from ex perience that the process of colling lip Ids three hundred and lift y pounds' and his six feet three Inches In an up per berth was tough stnlT. he was In dignant. He was particularly enrag ed when he noticed that the lower di rectly under Ids berth was occupied b\ a small man who tipped the scales at not more than a hundred and twen ty. nille grasped the curtains of the berth, shook them vigorously, growl ed once or twice, anil remarked vin dictively to the porter: "So I've got to sleep In an upper, have I 't The last time I did that It was oti a trip from Frankfort to Wash ington. and the blamed thing broke i low it and mashed the man unjler me. Throw that grip up there, and I hope to heaven the berth will hold me." Then he went hack to the smoker and had a cigar. When he returned, the little man was 111 the upper,? -Popular Magazine. Negro Woman Murdered. Coroner l>l\on was summoned to I.u golT Sunday last to hold an Inquest over the exhumed body of I.I/./.le (Jreen. a negro woman. The woman had been hurled exactly one week and foul play was suspected. Dr. S. 1'. Hraslngton was called upon to perform the autop sy. and It was shown that the woman had suffered from bruises about the throat and had otherwise been mal treated. The evidence adduced at the Inquest went to show that until the time the woman was carried to the home of her mother that she was 4n good health. The last seen of her she was in cimipany of several negro men. and that she was brought to her home in an unconscious condition and died soon after. After deliberating for some time the jury rendered a verdict that the woman came to her death by foul means. No one was held for tin* crime, but it Is expected that some ar rest-. will follow. (iood Tourist Season. The hotels and hoarding houses of the city (ire fast filling up and from all indications this will be the best tourist season Aiken has had in a dec ade Kvery train brings more people to the city, some from the northern cities and others are coming up from Florida, where they have been for a short time. Aiken Journal and Ro \ iew. IMPOKTANT NOTICK TO <H K Sl'ISSCKIBERS. < Mi :iiit! ;ift< r Man h 1.". tile nf Thr t'ftronlrtn wltt adopt ;i ? ;i-li in advance subscription list. We have mailed nut itos t ? ? every < iim> whose subscription lias expired, ami have given everyone ample op portunity tu either renew or to notify us requesting the paper to he continued. We have no means <>f knowing who dues or who does not wish the paper continued. It ousts a great deal of money to pub lish a newspaper and it costs money to send The Chronicle to a sub scriber. If there is any one of our subscribers who has not and can not L'et a dollar now. but wants to continue to read The Chronicle, we will gladly continue the paper fur a time, if he will but notify us to that eiTcet. but we cannot continue ! ? send the paper to those from \ li'-m we have no prospect of re eei villi: a renewal So If your sub - riptlon has expired and you want f jrr.r reading The Chronicle, ;>!e::M- let us kmm. else you may i ?' reeeivo another issue. ' ?Vc r,,.t to iu>e any of our - i! rit i-rs. but t!mse whose ae ? . ;i re in.t paid in advance of Mir h l.-illi. we will be compelled ' ? ?* i - ? * ? :ii. ue mailing The Chroni cle New - ib-eript iuns will l>e accept ed only when the ensh accompanies order j " I II I I ITEMS OVER THE STATE Short Now* Note# Gathered ? Prom Our E*chango#. : John Uutllff. wife was arretted in ( J max uir. mmwL mviiUu* ugu charged wjth ronblng tin exprosH pouch on a giiecn & Crescent railway train, of $ho,ooo ; ami who \v*?m later released wlum the 'charge* against him proved groundless, Iihh brought action against tho Southern railway ami the Queen \ Creaoent route for $100,000 daui ages alleging falae liuprlaoninent Kid Davis, ii negro convict, on tin* (JrocnvlUe counly chntn gang, whh kill imI hy Policeman <?eo. DuvIh In (ireen vlllt?, Friday afternoon. Tho negro, who wan a "t runty," had gone Into the city without permission to visit rela tive's ami (In1 policeman had Iwen or dered to arrest him. The negro re failed to submit to ardent and runlied upon the officer with a drawn raseoi' wheruu|ion tho policeman shot twice, killing the negro Instantly. v Corliss Gilliam, W. II. Stlunotte ami Da\e Aiercer have heen a rrested In Newport, Tenn., charged with the inur der of Wave Coojier In (JroeuvUle, some llmeago. The men will bo brought to South Carolina for trial. Mrs. K. 1 4. Seals of Dillon, is dead as the result of burns received when her clothing caught lire in her home several days ago. The lady was drown ing one of her children and had her hack to an open tire-place. John Pearson and Frank Biers, white boys, have been bound iwer to Fed eral court by the 1'nlted States com missioner at ( ?reeuvllle, oil the charge of making and passing counterfeit money. .Imlge (ieorge 10. Prince has returned to South Carolina after an extended trip to California, lie Is holding court tills week in Saluda county. Cftpt. S. J. B. Schlndel of the United States army has been detailed by the war department to make the annual spring ins]HH'tlons this year at (Memson college, the Citadel and Bailey Mili tary institute, the three South Carolina military schools, which are recognized by the United States war department; Jean Mcelroy, a youth *J1 years of age, shot and Instantly killed Miss Kockslc Steadmun. is years of age In tin* street at Beaumont mill village Spartanburg, shortly afternoon Mon day after which he ran a short distance and turned his pistol upon himself iu tllctlng a slight wound In the back of his head. The self-Inflicted wound wii < not verlous, however, and In- tnfule Ids way to the city where he was ar rested by the county officers and taken to jail. ('. W. Wall, of Dunbar tun, In Barn well county. \vas shot and seriously wounded by an unknown negro last week. Twenty-six prisoners convicted at the recent term of court at Charles ton were sent to the county chain gang from the jail Monday, according to plans by Capt. Bennett. Seven were sent to the State Penitentiary at Co lumbia and two to the State Reform atory at Lexington. The present session of the general assembly will very likely adjourn next Saturday, February L'O. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. It. L. N inunons, ?>f Se::ec:i, died Wednes day as the result of burns sustained several days previous. Senator F. I). Smith has accepted au invitation to make the commence ment address at Clemson college on June S. > sm LIAS NAME WITHDRAWN Mayor Griffith Complies With (iov ernor's Request. Columbia. Feb. 1(5. ? -Mayor Lewie A. Griffith lms withdrawn the name of It. Leon Khnll for appointment as a member of the Uiehlaml County dls ! |H>nsary board and has substituted the name of S. T. Wesberry. Governor Manning sent the following letter to Mayor Griflith: "1 have re ! eeiveel your letter ? ?f the 15th of Feb | ruary. in reply t?> my letter of the ; 1'lth day uf February, asking for in I formation about Mr. Shull. whom you i had named for appoint ment as a mem ber of the Richland County dispensary . board. "The only inference that can be i drawn from your letter is that you be i lieve that Mr. Shull has in the past i engaged in the illicit sale of whiskey ; and xiulU-Uul tin. I law. "Will you not. therefore, withdraw ' his name from this appointment and i sujrirest sorry one else?" ! .Mayor Crillith has made the follow - imr reply: "Replying to your letter of | February 10. 1015, I withdraw the I inline of R L. Shull and substitute the name of S. T. Wessberry for ap : uointment as a moiulM?r of the county ; dispensary board." FERTILIZER AM) ECONOMY I)AV Fertilizer and Economy Day held at the eonrt house Saturday, the l'ith. was fairly well attended. Rev. C. R. Smith the speaker on economy held the at 1 tfiti-.n of his hearers and Interlined a l'.mh! sound talk with mirthful 11 ; lustrations that kept all in fine spirits. .He said that for the most part people in all walks of life were llvintf too : fast and beyond their means, thnt oeon i omy was a science and ps|*>< ially need ? ed on the farm, that to get best out ? of a farm the farmer needed educa : tion, a trained brain more than a law yer needed training to ply hi.s trade. He suggested strict economy In every thltn/ irrowlng all food supplies, rattle. hoga and i hhi I) ry op the farm would make um Insensible to war <m?k rumors ut war. ? Mr. 1, J. MeKomdo, tho Htuntkor on fertiliser#, dWHixsed tin- extravagance iyml wasteful use of fertilizers jfe statodthatthe niiHO^iitlflc and hciior a nt w ?y iu wlik'h large qiMHtltloH of commercial ferllllKors were usod eadsod ut least fifty |H*r oenl h?*H by lea<tatnK, ??Mpochtlly on sandy soils. Ho deplored the fart that farmers deluded too much on commercial fertlllx.orN ami no fleeted our tine soil building plants I lk?* burr clover, |h>u vinos ami fye, nil of which affords lino pasturage or ha>1 hi their season, Ho claimed Iu* ha?l grown oxer one thousand |h*\iii<Im seed cotton on a burr clover Hold which live year* before was a ha iron waste with r?0 pounds of fertilizer to start it. that r.vo sown In cpUoi.i mlddlos some tliuo In September would product* n fourth bettor crop next yoar, that the farmer ralslnu those soil enriching plants could while they wore building Ids laud have cattle, hogs, and |>oultry furnishing him with wholesome moats, iiutter, milk, and eggs at small cost ami have some to sell.- lUossed with v<i riH-optlve a soil and so line a climate sucookh only awaits the man making ii-e of his brain and some energy. It behooves the farmer to got out of the old ruts, use ecomony, gray matter ami energy and the rest will care for It self. THE COW ?ND HRR PRODUCT. (i fin. soil Collide Weekly Not oh For Farmer and Dairyman. (Theso notes are prepared by the Dairy Division of Clemson College, which will be glad to answer any question pertaining to dairying.) There Is as much food value in a quart of milk as in a pound of beef steak. I. and in Holland which is worth from If 1,000 to $2, (KM) per acre is used almost entirely for pasturing dairy COWS. I .and on the Island of Jersey of which the annual retal is fifty dollars per acre is used for Jersey cows. Never cross breeds. Select a pure breed and stick to it. Crossing breeds breaks up the lines of inheritance and makes prediction as to the offspring impossible. A dairyman should never use a. bull whose dam and paternal grand-dam were not able to produce 350 to 400 pounds of butter in 305 days. Many a man is chained to a poor cow. The scales and the Habcoek test will free him from this bondage. The native races of Africa. AmerU ca and Australia which have never developed beyond the state of barba rism have no appreciation of the value of milk as a food. All highly civilized nations consume large quantities of milk. Butter color is a vegetable product and perfectly pure. In summer the cow eats green feed, which colors the butter. In winter t lie dairyman must add the coloring. White butter does not bring Rood prices. Silage is more palatable than cotton seed hulls, costs less and certainly will Kive better results. The dairyman and the silo should be inseparable. Heavy cream will remain sweet longer than thin cream because there Ls less milk in the thicker cream. Milk spoils more quickly than cream, just as lean meat spoils more quickly than fat meat. AN OPTICAL ENIGMA. Why Is It the Human Eye 8oea Things Right Side Up? Just why we are able to see things right side up Is a mystery which science has not yet been able to ex plain. We know that the human eye in volves the same optical principles as a camera Owing to the fart that light always trav^js In a straight ' line and never In a curve, the rays which em anate from any object within our range of vision have to descend and ascend in "ider f" travel inin the uar row opening in the eye which corre sponds to the camera's lens. These rays finally reach a point where they intersect. Continuing on In straight lines. their relative position be comes Jnst the reverse of what thej were when they left the object seen, i Thus ttie image register on the retina i of your eye Is topsy turvy. Just as It Is on the pti orographic plate In a camera. If you are looking at a house, for In stance, the image your eye gets wll show t tie <-iiimneys down below, the foundation walls up above, and so on Hut the impression your t>rnln get> reveals the house right side up utiles. you happen in he afltlcted with h rare disorder win. h re>ults In everything always appe.-n my topsy turvy During the uilinitesiinally short pe rlod reunited to flash Ihe image seen from the e\ e's retina to the brain h 1 1 I tie 41 gtit ra \ s which created the image | are reassembled and put back In their : proper j ? i a ? e*. s?> that the hralu seen i the ol>Je< t as it really is and not In the j topsy tur\ \ form it was registered on j the retina .hist how tills miracle J* ! performed i* what scieie-e would tike ! to find out. New York American. The legislature of South Dadota has passed a I ill to abolish capital punish ment In that state. Read the list of Want ads In today's Chronicle. I CHAMUKK Or OOMMERCK Held Meeting Wednesday jmmI M?Htr of <H?rb Market DiMcuMaed. ' The regular monthly meeting t?f the Chamber of Coi^meictt. WJJJ4 held last Wednesday with a good num ber of members In attendance. The Civic I .vague of Camden requested the Chamber to take up the matter of a curb market, setting aside certain days in the week ami certain streets warn which the fanners and others could K4?) I their wa res. The Chamber thought It advisable that the farmers be first asked about their desires In the mat tar before any action was faken. Another matter to come before the Cii/imber the replies from the Seaboard and Nurth western railways about complaints uuide by the Isaly to the railroad commission of tfoutli Caro lina.-. l'artlcs living mi the line of the I Seaboard south of Camden made com plaint that trains did not stop at Iiln-f i ley, LugotT and IVuitiac for passcn gers. The company begged to advise that Instruct tons had been put out effective Feb. Oth, providing that trains .'{ and 1 .Nil slop on (lag at the points named, and hoped that this would sat. lsfactorlly take care of Camden busi ness. In the matter of the Northwestern taking off their passenger trains and substituting mixed trains the company made it plain to the commission that the financial situation made it neces sary for them to take the train off but they assured the commission that as soon situation got letter t.3;J service WOUld 1>? _C<>1^ llimsl |Un 1 fo?i\ Also us t<> the matter of poorly v. wl " #1 k! 1 heated coaches i'B&lilw* Thomn ? WUwtm r^U'd lt * follows, what lie has to say ul?t>ut ('.mnUnv' poor hotel accomodations having wm& thing to do Willi the Hght travel over tHJUMtnc to Oam(Jeu Is only too tru?; "1 regret very much that comnlaM lu\s l?o?Vn made regardlug our train Service. The present scAgflule KiVt>l the |HK?i>le along our Hue 15 tuluutea more In (JauuMfti dally than they had when we operated straight passenger tralh, "Am to the complaint of the lighting of the coaches, we have four coaehea with pinch gas whleh affords an excel lent ligbt hut I am advised that on -one or two trips m*6utly a coach waa put lu service whleh Is lighted up NV|th oil lumps and -does not afford us, bright a light us rtuea tho gas. This coach however was only In servh^o teun>o ragjly and one of the Ras coaches is .now on that -fun, which I examined personally ami tlml tho coach in ??hh1 condition ; well heated and well light ed. Our night train often goes Into Camden without any passengers some times with one <?r two. The light trav el on our Hue is somewhat due to the fact tlmt Oauiden has no good hotel accomodations. Of course, one passen ger Ik entitled to as go<?d accomoda tions as If we had more, and I will hoc tiV it that the coaches on this run are kept, in good condition." Secretary PuJtose tells ns that there arc a gfvnt many of tho members be hind with {heir annual dues. He is mailing statements to each one this week and hopes that tho members will respond with their dues promptly. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT On. Wednesday and Thursday, February 24th and 25th, Schloss Bros. & Co., of Baltimore, will hold their semi-annual Tailoring Display in our store and you ares cordially invited to call and see the new styles in materials and models for the coming season. Remember, this is a high class custom tailoring, backed by a house of forty years reputation and we guarantee you to be pleased if you come and see this magnificient line. Wolfe-Eichel Company MACFEAt-BOWEN BUSINESS COLLEGE, Columbia, S. C. Gentlemen:? J Please send me full particulars of courses in Bookkeeping, Banking, Penmanship, Shorthand, find Typewriting. I am interested and expect to take a course in the near future. Yours for business, Name Address Buy a Ford Car ? rZZ?- A S5 \~*'v V". We have accepted the agency from the Factory and offer this year a Ford Roadster for. $474.00 delivered, and a Touring Car for $524.00 delivered. People laughed at the Wright's with their air- ? ship. They scoffed at Marconi and -his wireless. They poked f on at McCormick and his reaper. They ' called Columbus a fool. It seems odd now doesn't it? Hundred* of people saw a teakettle lid teetle, yet only Watt and Newton actually cashed in on the experience. Now is the time for you to cash in 'on a Ford. Lots of men t.Atl you that a Ford was too' liKht They did not gee Its" future: Now^frray realize ttwt the Ford has become an atmolnte huxltiess necessity. Come in and. see the new Fordar_jrou wHl find what we tell you worth your attention, and that it will set you htlnking. Smith's Garage .