Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Tombstones & Monuments When in need of Tomb stone and Monuments see pie before you place your or der. Representing- the Dixie Marble Co., of Canton, Ga, Samples of marble shown. J. D. SINCLAIR, P. 0. Box 35. Camden, S. C. In All The Tires made there isn't one that won't meet Its Waterloo sometime. The lurking tack or the sparkling glass will reach its ortats and then ? bring it here, we'll execute REPAIRS [promptly and unless the tire has rolled off too many centuries, re store it to its original condition. Bicycle sundries a specialty. We weld broken parts of bicycles. H. E. BEARD COLUMBIA LUMBER & MANUFACTURING CO MILL WORK SASH, DOORS, BLINDS AND LUMBER PLAIN & HUGER ST S. Phone 71 COLUMBIA, S. C. Collins Brothers Undertakers for Colored People ' Telephone 41 714 W. DeKalb St. J. H. MAYFIELD Photographer Studio Over Hank of Camden. A11 Kinds of photographs made in the studio and at the homes. All Kodak developing done free of charge. Ar tistic flash light home portraiture, Etc. Over Bank of Camden. CASH Green Grocery ? Telephone 24 We have opened a meat market and green grocery in the stand formerly oc cupied by Campbell Bros., where we will carry at ?11 times a choice line of Fre?h Beef, Pork, Veal, Lamb. Mutton and all meata us ually found in an up-to date market. We will make deliveries promptly and there will be no long awits. I L. B. Campbell Manager I y Hi luu new nunu ? in mo variety and number of its features that arouse vivid interest. The extent of the island is not great, for its ir regular oblong mass is only 100 miles in length and about thirty-five miles in breadth, or approximately three times as large as Long Island; yet its inhab itants number more than 1,200,000, thus making it more thickly populated than any other equivalent area In the western hemisphere excepting certain portions of New England. Its place in history is a large one, for since itB discovery by Columbus in 1493, it has served as the battle ground of Spanish, Dutch and English, and as a haven for the buccaneers who operated throughout the Spanish main. Even in purely scientific respects it commands the Interest of many a de partment of investigation, writes Henry E. Crampton in the American Museum Journal, because its different portions display unusually varied geo logical and topographical characters. They also support well diversified forms of plant and animal life, whose study is especially important on ac count of the island's value as a link in the Antlllean chains that connect North and South America with each other and with Mexico. Hence the problems of evolution, distribution and migration, of human beings as well as of organic forms in general, are par ticularly well defined and engaging in the case of Porto Rico. As the approaching steamer nears the northern shore of Porto Rico, where the capital city of San Juan is situated, the huge bulk of the island emerges from the haze of the horizon, and displays the jagged profile of the massive mountain range that forms the interior highland more than three thousand feet in altitude. From this great backbone the buttressed spurs drop somewhat suddenly and Irregu larly for the most part, to the coastal plain of greater or less inland extent; the deep clefts of the upland valleys disappear, and one may judge how rapidly the swift mountain rivers must change to slow, winding streams upon the flat land of the island's mar gin. Coming nearer, San Juan and its buildings become visible and soon a point of its eastern end detaches it self from the rest to staod out as the capo surmounted by El Morro ("The Castle"), which guards the entrance to the harbor. Not until the fort is rounded does the city itself become fully visible, for it is built on the land ward side of the sandstone ridge which bounds tho bay on the north. Elsewhere, for the most part, ships must lie in open roadsteads; only at Guanlca, Guayanilla, and one or two other places is there anything that ap proaches a protected harbor like that of San Juan. ? Many Good-Sized Towni. At first view the city is impressive by its extent, the close construction of its ancient and modern buildings, and by the delicate pastel shades of its tinted whitewashed walls. More than fifty thousand people are crowd ed in dense areas on the narrow rock mass . that extends eastward from El Morro for two and a half miles to its connection with the mainland; there are plazas and open spaces, but these seem only to accentuate the concen tration of living quarters. As one travels about, the same feature be comes more prominent, for on the open plain, in a valley near the coast, or In remote and unlikely hollows of the hills, one encounters town after town of more than tQn thousand or fif teen thousand Inhabitants. Naturally the problems of public health are of the highest importance, and of neces sity they received the immediate at tention of the Americans when they came into control of Porto Rico in 1898. Old methods of water distribu tion by casks have been extensively replaced by a system which brings water through lines of pipes from the upland streams ; and everywhere meas ures have been taken to reduce the sevarity of epidemics or to stamp them oat On the whole, Pojto Rico today la a V)lw FROM Thc Mouth or the. Corozal. Ovu healthful island, with a warm climate well tempered by the trade windB, and well cultivated almost everywhere. With its splendid roads and natural beautlop, it is and will always bo at tractive to the casual traveler, as well as to the investigator of its scientific character and resources. In the intorior valleys, plantations of tobacco are laid out. The plants are protected by sheets of cheese cloth which, with their sharply-defined borders, seem like incongruous fields of snow upon the deep groon of the hills. Even the steep slopos of the hills bear here and there their 'little patches of tobacco or of other crops, centering about a native hut perched precariously near the top, and set oft by tho graceful royal palms. Higher up, the charactor of the ground or of the region is unsuitable for tobacco, yet even hero coffee and cocoa are grown under tho shade of specially planted trees. Little remains of the larger for est, for wood becomes scarce when so many demand it daily for flros. Only on the higher peaks of tho great cen tral mountains aro there any relics of tho primeval growth that onco ex tended so widely. On the flanks of tho main cast-and west backbone of tho island, composed of igneous rocks, there are broken lev els and hills of limestone, full of marine fossils and other indications of thoir origin at the border of tho ocean. Since their formation the land has risen so as to lift them many hun dreds of feet above their former level. Where the rivers have worn against them, they display stratified faces of especial interest to the geologist and paleontologist. Passing the great divide from north to south, the mountains drop more rapidly to the foothills and to the coastal plains, in the southeast the ground is still suitablo for sugar and cocoanut groves; but coming west, tho effect of the heights in cutting off the moisture of the trades bocomes more marked, and a semiarid region with its characteristic cactus is encoun tered. Here tho cane can be grown only by extensive irrigation, whiqli the insu'.ar government has undertaken with great success and profit. Toward the southwest, the land becomes a typical desert, and about Lake Guani ca it supports little besides the associ ation of cactus plants. The Corozat Cavern. In the limestone regions, hundreds of large and small caverns hare been excavated by underground streams. One of these, near Corozal, is well worthy of description. The valley iB a beautiful wide basin, surrounded by peculiar triangular white hills of lime stone, and the cave mouth, about forty feet in height, la reached by means of creepers and ledges on the very face ol the cliff. Once it is gained, the down ward view is a striking and character istic panorama of hill and field and stream. On the sides of the entrance there are hundreds of spider webs, each with the dried remains of its casual collection of prey. Trending Inward and upward, the way narrows until after four hundred yards or more of walking and scrambling and creep ing, one emerges into daylight through a small hole on the other side of the hill. Thousands of bats hide In the holes of the arched roof, or cling to Its rough surfaces. On the walls there are peculiar forms of insects and huge arachnlda, with long deli cate antennae which serve them in place of their virtually useless eyes. By way of contrast, the cave in the hills above Clales is one with many mouths, and a huge vaulted chamber with stalactites and stalagmites above and below. On account of the dominant Span ish influence for so many centuries, the population naturally exhibits a preponderance of the characteristics ol that race. Only a small section, how ever, has retained Its parity, of which M.lB Justly proud; for the most part the people are mixtures of Spanish, negro and Indian characters. It is strange that so f#w are found with unmixed African features, although In certain settlements, they too, have preserved many of the customs as weU as the physique of their ancestors. VKHIK N imLL HOLDS, I tempera to Attempts Made lur^Yeflfh i Linos Hut Full to Hreak Through. \ out Her detormUuHl attempt toy Hie Herman* to break through 1 1*** Froiich llnys iiorthwewt of Yerduu ton's r?*ult > ml tii failure ii nil with heavy lasses to rl)r tiemans, \fter days of Intense .artillery pre partition for another etVort to lessen the *l\ tullgs intervening hot\v?H?it them ami the HarJsYerduu Hallway and the nine miles still hylween thejn and Yer d\ui. tint UeriutOt* launched a fjrtMH in fantiv attack t?ii t hi* Haucourt lletto Ineourt sector. 111 succcksIv e wavoa. f !*?? Hermans \\ on- thrown Into ,tlle fi'u\. Inn nil of ttndr attempts wen1 put iIoxmi |i\ tin' curtain of lire of t li?? French. miiis ami tl iv of the French in ! fan try. rhi'i'i' Is still an intermittent hum hardmcnt northeast ??< Verdnn, and in the Woevre reuion tin- French have been shelling Heruuui |')'>iti(>n?. In Ilif \i.;nnin' the\ art* ci\inu I lu? tier , i?i:t u I i i ics no rest, while in the Yosnes the artillery action lias been. marked ou both shies. i Mi t lit* Mrltish front, in tin1 St. ICjoi sector, the (iertmius open ed a heavy artillery tire. on the Mrltish forces holding tin* ground gained by Diem Monday, The Hrithdi artillery r??| ?1 Its 1 effectively and according to the 111 it ish otllcial statciiH'iil these posi tloiis are still In the hands of the Hri tlsh In tho l'ostavy region of the Bus slan front Berlin rei*orts that the ?on slaughts of tho Russians against the < >oiiuaii lines have been w i t h s t v>< >1 1 and that the attacking forces have suffered heavj casualties. A seml-otllcia! dis patch from Berlin says the Russians have attacked in their new offensive with <10 divisions over a front <>f 120 kilometers and that .their losses have been not less than 80.000 men. Heavy Italian bombardments of Aus trian positions along the Isonzo con tinue. A Ccrman air stpiadron hasdropj>ed bombs on tiie harbor works at Sahm Iki and the Entente Allied encamp ment north o,f Saloniki. A Merman - torpedo-boat destroyer was rammed and sunk by the British light crnlser Cleopatra, In the recent engagement- off the German coast. There were no Herman survivors. The American Government through its Ambassador at Berlin has asked the German Government' if its sub marines were responsible for the dam age sustained by the cross-channel steamer Sussex and the sinking of the British steamer Englishman. Two additional steamers have been sent to the bottom, the Eagle Point, a British vessel, presumably by a torpe !d<>; and the Harriet, a Danish vessel by a mine. The crews of both ves sels were saved. Tiie unity and solidarity of the En tente Allies and the decision "to con tinue the struggle to victory for the <?0111111011 cause" were reatflrmed In reso lutions passed by the conference of the Allies in Paris. I ?r. It. \V. tilde, who has been pas t<<r of the Baptist church in Darling ton fur. nearly twenty-five years, has resigned and has been succeeded by Rev. Howard 1?. Weeks. Hattlc Cleapor. a 18-year-old girl of Sumter. was run over and seriously in i uved by :ti> automobile driven by C. 11. Wilson of Sumter Saturday. I _ MASTER'S SALE. State of South -Carolina. County of Kershaw. Court of ( Yunmon Pleas .1. B. Meyer. IMaintlfT. against (!. S. Nicholson, John T. Maekey, and N'. IV Workman. I >ef end ants. Cnder and hy virtue of a decretal order herein, of his Honor, T. J. Maul din. Presiding Judge, of date March 10th, 1910. I will sell, at public out cry to the highest bidder, before the Court House door, in Camden, County of Kershaw. State of South Carolina, during the legal hours of sale, ou the first Monday in April, 15)10, being the third day thereof, the following de scribed real estate: All that piece, parcel or tract of land situate, lying and being in the State of South Carolina, and County of Kershaw, containing two hundred and forty-nine (249) acres, inore or less, bounded North by lands of Gard ner; East by Thorn lands and lands of Iteddick Anderson ; South by lands formerly of Tldwell, now of Mosier; and West by Maekey and Workman ; the dividing line between the last nam ed parties having' been heretofore ad judicated by this Court between the parties hereto. The above described tract of land is a portion of that con veyed to C. S. Nicholson by deed of L. A. Wittkowsky. Master for Kershaw County, of date March 20th, 1914, and of record in the office of Clerk of Court Wood's Productive Seed Corns. Our Virginia-grown Seed Coras have an established reputation for superiority in productiveness and germina ting qualities. Wood*? Descriptive Catalog tells about the best of prize-win ning and profit-making varieties in both Whit* and Ysllow Corns. Cotton Seed. We offer the best and most Im proved varieties, grown in sections absolutely free from boll weevil. Our Catalog gives prices and infor mation, and tells about the best of Southern Seeds, 100-DAY VELVET BEANS, Soja Bmiu, SUDAN GRASS. Dallis Great and all Sorghums and Millets. Catalog mailed free on request. T.W.WOOD O SONS. SEEDSMEN, ? Richmond, Va. for Kershaw County. To.i'ms of sale, cash, Anyone rlitff to l?it I at. such Male dmll UrM deposit with the Master ee.r titled check oh rojiutahWii hanking institution, for the siitn of one hundred dollar-- ( $ ItHUHH MS c\ idcin c of gtM?d filUU. I.. A. WlTTKUWSlvY, Master Kershaw Comity Mnrtli Kith. mm. ' A ? V- * - FORECLOSURE SALE. state of South Carolina, County, of Kershaw. Court of Common I'leas <iu*> I iirsch, Plaintiff, , ma lust Amelia Mi* Kir. Defendant. Coder and l>.\ virtue of a decretal older herein. of his Honor, 'P .1 Maui din. Presiding Judge. of tin t *? March I ith. 101(1, i \n 1 1 1 soil, for fiisit, at puh lit oult/ry, to the highest bidder. before the Court I Ion, so door, hi Camden, County of Kershaw* State of 'South Carolina, during the legal hours of sale, <hi the first Monday In April, UlltS. being t ho Ilrd day ther?4if. th'o following described real estate: All 1 1 in t piece, parcel or tract of land, containing twenty-three and tlve eighth* ( L\'t ft si acres., more or less, situated In the County of Kerslntw, State of South Carolina, six ttll or seven ^ 7 > miles Northwest of the City of Cannlen, on Saunders* Creek ; hound ed No.rth hy lands of I0d Heaves; lOast by tract of land set apart to Isabella Williams out of tin* estate of James Watts*. South hy tract of land set apart to l'arrls Watts out of the es tate lands of .lames Watts; West hy tract of land set apart to Fannie Harnos out of the estate lands of James Watts) which will more fully appear hy reference to plat of W. It. Twltty. surveyor, dated December, 1JH)N. No hid will he received without tlm purchaser tirst deposit with the Sheriff cash or certified check in the sum of one hundred dollars ($100.00). W. W. IU1CKAHKK. Sheriff Kershaw County. March lftth. mitt. AUTO DELIVERY Saratoga ('hips Mchaurin's Club UouHe Chooao Dill ricklOH Krosli V'ojyotabloM liottuco, Oelory ( 'ranborrios Fat Maokorol. lLl" J' ? ? ? "m Wo Oliver liy Aiiloiuobllo nntl can rIv* you prompt ami re liable service. TELEPHONE NUMBER 2 LANG'S HIGH-GRADE GROCERY "Where Quality Count*" Dr. I. H. AUui^tr Dr. R. E. SlmiiN Alexander & Stevenson DENTISTS OH?c* C*r??r Broad DaKalk St?. Kcail (he lone lint of articleN in the Waul Column in fcxlay't* paper. Prepared Close attention to our business, studying the wants of our customers, persistently striving* to better our effi ciency, has made the success of our business, and coup led with the above the 25 years of experience, with the assistance of competent help, catering to the wants of our customers, justifies the assertion that we are better prepared than ever to serve our customers. We handle a full line of Farmers Supplies. Har ness, Heavy Groceries, Hay, Grain, Poultry and Dairy Feeds. Wagons. Buggies, Harness, Disc Harrows, Walk ing Cultivators, Peg Tooth Cultivators, Cotton and Corn Planters* Guano Distributors, Rakes, Mowers. Southern Field Fencing, Barb Wire Staples. Call and get our prtfes before making your pur chases. SPRINGS 8c SHANNON The Store That Carries The Stock. J. w. McCORMICK, Prop. E. VV. BOND, Manager Mc CORMICK &CO. Funeral Directors and Embalmert. Night Phone 23. AMBULANCE SERVICE. Day Phone 70. r nnnfrv Calls Answered Promptly Day or Night. Camden Undertaking Co. C. W. EVANS, Manager FUNERAL DIRECTORS and LICENSED EMBALMERS AMBULANCE SERVICE. ? City and Country Call* Attended Promptly DAY OR NIGHT Office and Show Rooms at 535 DeKalb Street Office Phone 91 Residence Phone 283-L