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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE! H. jo, Nik* mid / w %i if It t Puhlliitwr*. E. N. M? l>?mell . ) rublUhed every Friday ?t 1109 No. v llroud Street, arid entered Ht the Cam d*u poxtotllee as *e<ond elftM mall iuat Iff, I'rhv per Hiiiium $1.00. Wo art? jjlfld to reeelve couunun liga tions of u reaaonuhl# length, but an Important condition of their puhllea f i?>ti 1* llinl they shall In all iiiwh 1m? it ' <?? xiipii 1 1 i?>?l I ? y the full name and i viici addrex* of flit* sendei . < >hltu? mU'K, resolution* of respect,. and church uetlee* will not be clinrift'd f?>r. Mat ters of purely a persona) nature will he charged for at the rate of live cent* u line. Whiskey or patent inedlelne advertisements will not !>?? accepted at uny prlee. Kates for display adver tising made known on application. -x 1 ??-T-- rrrnr. - .... r Camden, S. July 28, Itfltf. i'leau l p Week ha> heen post|M>uod until Monday, Amrust 7th, when all premise* will he I nx| ?>?| hy the hoard of health. The ( "It i< ?i< wih tiltniii the only lit W r-i I >al |H'r Mill lt> people ill < 'tlUldcU and the county lunl to read last week, be ing slmi <>tr from mail on all shies. That i lit* paper was Hppreelated was evidenced by tin* many Inquiries at t Im olllee t?> know if we would lie mi l.nie. Then too, the sales at the otliee hi ^ f week was the largest ever known, and we put on a goodly number of new readers h.v mil effort h* to get to our leaders on time. lankily we caught an automobile going to haucaH ler Thurnday afternoon and the train to Mc'Uet! and many iieople read the paper in Kershaw and Bethune before it w?h dlHtrihuted in Camden. Manning and Wilson. Curds liearlng the double picture of President Wood row Wilson and <Jov. Itlchard I. .Manning hiv belli# dlstrl huted in Camden. "Our Coventor and Our President" is the title and the fol lowing statement is made: "Leaders in the state ti ml nation. They have made good. They stand for reverence for law. inanity of lahor. Kducatlon of mankind. Ileal Democrat ie candi dates' for re-election on their awn merits rather tluin the demerits < ?f their l.ppolicnlH." IIKALTH HINTS. The t'nited States Public Health Service asks do you Th'i nk muz/ding eruel and 1 1 i?*ii mar v? I at the .spread of rallies? I'HTofnlly select your brand of Ihpmr mid then feed ypur children unpasteur ized milk? Jtcpeat the tjolden Rule and then si"'.'ze in soiiielHMly'8 fare? ? ampin# for your health and then I la< ? vmir toilet so tliat it drains Into your w it tor supply ? Newspapers Appreciated. The Yorkville Kmpilrer had u recent editorial referring to the hard work of newspaper people and the IliffletiltloM with which they often have to contend In order to i;et out .an edition. In the midst id' strain and effort they are likely to heroine somewhat discouraged Old feel that the public does not ap preciate their efforts. The Cinpilrcr refers i ? ? the anxiety manifested by. its patron- during the tlotnl t<> u'et the paper. It was nought hi town, ami on rural routes people weir at their boxes waiting for the carriers me in order that thry might get their papers. This leads The Kmpilrer to remark that such ex l ibitioiis of interest are enough to en courage the newspaper man. ami make liiin fake a more hopeful view of the situation. We believe, as a rule, people do ap preciate the newspaper, though they are rarely very demonstrative over it. We do know that the newspaper man is never unmindful of his obligations to the public, not only to give them accurate reports of what 1- being done, but to have his paper reach them when it is due. He will work night and day la order to do this. He knows nothing else, but to make the malls. There is not a man in a newspajier otlh-e from fh?. edlfor on down to the devil who will not make every sacrifice in the face of tire and flood to meet the dc laamls 11 1 m n i his pa|?er. He Is one man who is on to his job, ami who never b ts up until his work is done. When ( tu task is tinMied he Is ready for the next. i in and on he goes every c!a\ in the \ear. year in and year out, (?tilers may -have holidays, but his holi days arc spent in discharging* a duty which lie feels Jie owes to others. ? (Jreenw ood .b>nrnal. Governor Manning seemed to be the favorite at the itarmveil campaign UMH'ting. About two thousand were I resent. .1. Shapfer Caldwell. assistant adju tant general, has resigned on account if differences with Adjutant General Moon. Special Notice To I hi* Trade and Public In General: We started a market here a few mouth* ago on a Cash basis, giving the lowest possible prices for cash, and wish to state that we are still continuing to do business on th* same principle. Choice fresh Meats, Breakfast Bacon, Hams, etc., at the lowest possible mo ney-saving prices for cash. A guarantee of honest weights and square dealing with each pur chase our method. Thanking you for past favors and soliciting your future busi ness. we are Yours to serve, CASH CENTRAL MARKET W. C. HOUGH, Pro*. - 607 We?t Rut)e4ge Street Phone No. 1 Camden, S. C. Wakeful I m* of Tap*!1. III*! I?oW tile pilee of Is .MMll lug. tiut- In imrt to Inereas4?d vwi of lliauufaetuie, llllt largely to deiUUUd. Willi Improved ( rade eomlltloiis hush ik'hh 1114*1 1 by tlmusands ii iv printing catalog* himI Ol l)4*r aunouneement* with m result that paper I* selling for twlee wiia t ll brought six mouths ago. Kven ill I In* present lil?|l prh-4?s eolieems ,i ii? onlt'iintt a year's hii | ?| ?ly of ottlee stathmery and I'll V4*lo| h4h, when a six months' supply wpuld Ih> reasonably safe a ii< I lit'l | ? bring supply and du Mill IK I together. A most exeellellt SUg? geHiou Is luuile by Xieorgu F. Lord, advertising manauer of a vary large rompauy. who state* thai Ills eoneern Imi? I Intended t<? dollhle tin* slvte of llii'lr house organ with *J<Mi,(NNi elreu In ? l?'ii | m ? i* month, hut will not do so hi prewiit, hi order not to further dls lurii the paper situation They also have adopted half size letter heads for nil short letters, ami are earrylng out I he Kiiine principle in all tlielr printed matter. A* Mr. I.ord suggests, If all business men would adopt the same policy every purpose would he equally well served and a sjiviiiu elt'cHeil whlell would he siirprlsluu. As the ahove lines were heliitf writ ten. some mail was laid on the desk, and the very lirst pleee proved a glar< lug example of useless wast<?r An envelope I) l>.\ \'J Inehes, made pf heavy bond paper. ?*< hi t ?i I imm) a sheet of Hue llllstol Im Itil'll tllf StIIIM' sl/C, >t 114 1 a sheet ? ?f Iwavy. expensive pai>er which when unfolded spread out is by i?4 inches. Only four of the eight pages contained any printing, and the tlrnt page. 1? by 1 Inches, carried just eight words In moderate-sized t.v|H? ; another page contained only 2JI words, and the entire text spread over four pages could easily have firon printed .on one page without omitting a single won). Here then wen* eight large pages, of which four were white paper, where one page would have answered. And the burden of the story told was Hint somebody had "Increased his revenue" a certain per cent ! And a day's mall brings to most business men an arm -fui of pa]H?r wasted, most of which promptly llnds Its way Into the waste basket. Time was when the printed page, whatever Its message, was almost sa cred. simply because It was printing on pa|>cr. Hut our children know It not.? II. II. Windsor. In the August Popular Mechanics Magazine. Two years ago the report was i>er t slstently it nd Industriously clrculate<l in nil parts of the state, especially in flic up-country, that Manning could not carry Sumter county. The result of the tlr-t primary demonstrated that the ?dory was a yarn of the whole cloth, and in the second primary bis oppo nent. Itb'liards. actually received less votes than he did in the llrst. while Manning's vote was increased. re ceiving more than three times as many votes us Hlchards. The same tactics are now U?lng used. Sumter men tow eling in other parts of the state being re]>entcdly asked if it is true that Manning cannot carry Sumter county this year, it would seem that past ex |H?rleiiee would have taught even his political enemies tiiat a campaign lie as silly as the statement that Manning cannot curry his own county could Ijelp their cause not at all. .Manning lias always received the support of Sumter county, having r?*eelved a 1 a rife majority of the votes cast in every campaign In which he has been a can didate for governor, the year he was defeated by Ansel iiof excepted; The ! record be has made a-; governor and j the belief that I fee Spite needs two more years of constructive and pro-' gressivc administration and two more years of law enforcement under his di rection lias increased rather than di minish his strength with his home peo ple and Sumter county will gix-e him this year the usual large and compli mentary majority. If Manning's re flection depended upon Sumter county alone the other candidal *s would <piit the campaign now to save railroad fare and hotel hills, for each and ev ery one of them knows beyond |H?rad venturc or doubt that Manning will be endorsed by Sumter county and that he will carry the county by a big vote. < >f course lie will not receive all the votes cast in Sumter county, he never has received them all and never will, for there are several hundred jjebple in Sumter county who are politically op pos.'d to Manning and everything that he s t a n 1 1 s for and represents. They have always voted against him and t hex xx ill continue to vote against him. no matter xx ln> the opposition candi date may l>e. hut unless all signs fail the \ . ?t ?? against Manning this year xx ill be smaller thali it was txvo years ago. Suinter Item. Concrete Highway Trestle of Record length. One of the most absorbing examples i of concrete construction so far execut ed in America is represented by a cUUsewaj that spans the Vol # bypass in the Sacramento Valley. The August Popular Mechanics Magazine describes the construction of this trestle. It Is thought to he the longest of Its kind in the world and has lately been com pleted tinder the supervision of the California State Highway Commission. Although :UH? miles from end to end. and a striking *pecimen of good, ac curate workmanship, this elevated roadway xx as built in a thoroughly substantial manner for less than ?.*>. (KH?. Certain phases of the construc tion were accomplished by original methods which have attracted the at tention of engineers. The ynit system was followed in erecting the trestle, which Is *JO feet In height and provides a roadway 21 feet wide. It is supported on rein forced -concrete piles, each weighing from three to live tons, that were driven Into place. The floor consists of precast slabs. Four of these were placid side by side to span the 20 foot gn |>s between the t?ents, the full width of the structure. The parts were so carefully designed and put together that the completed tr??stle is a mon olithic structure. In a pistol doel between "Barrel of Trouble," a negro, and .Sheriff Roark of Pickens county and deputiea King and Kmco at Paris station north of Greenville Monday afternoon, the for mer was shot to death and the officers narrowly escaped possible fatal injnry. Other than "Barrel of Troohle/' the negro'* naoae ie not knowp. mrriNti htii-l cjoks on. j (hu* Veteran I'urtiuwl Calling in Sight ?f * liix City. Not 'far fruiu l<oulsvllle, but u cross the rlvor, tu Indiana, Peter Mclhwiel. 77 ye> ??r* ??)<!. traplHAl' wlitw home wan a solitary cabin at Heaver llolo. on Fourteen Mile creek, died recently. That I In* iv are still trappers in the Hudson Hay hitsln, In tlu> American RiM'kleH, In tin* more sparsely nettled sections of l lit- Kastern mountain | ranges and in the Southern hwmiu|m Is. i of ('(HUM', well known, says The L'nu rlet Journal. Hut it will awaken In tin i hrcast of many a l.oulsvllle. lad tile j atavistic loiudnu to follow the forest j trails to hear that 1'eter Mclhtniel, pro | fcssloual trapper and hunter, made Ids i living all Ids' life almost within sight j of the smoke that rises from the j stacks of IamiImVIIIc factories. Kvery youth who is healthy Is hy | nature ah adventurer. The hoy whose i hare fi?ct feel the soil In summer time, and who tl*hcs and swims and hunts, j longs to hunt and trap fur. hearers and | sell |k'I|s. and tight Indians, I lkt* Leatli , erst ock lug, the Fcnlmore IVwjK'r hero In whom were Incarnated the Ideals of i normal laiyhocsl. Fven Hie exploits of lluckc|la>rry Finn and Toin Sawyer? not forgetting the hunt for hurled treasure, the cave and Injun .Joe ? smack much of -1*1 v lilxed life when compared with l^eath* crstm-king's way of 1 1 f??. or the adven ! tures of Kit Carson. Kverjr boy f?H'ls that there ought t < ? Ik? a good ileal ? tf trapping ami hunt ing still to do. ami that wore it not for tho cranky notions of elders who wish him to go to school, to college, and Dually to a dull office or factory or store whete fur tunes are made, ami natural Inclinations stifled, a f Ml low might find life more worth the living. As a matter of fact, it Is possible still for a man to live, like Peter Mc Danlel, In a shack in the woods and depeml ujmui his rifle, his traps and Ids dogs. If he may not dine on liear meat, venison and \ylld turkey, as j)an lel Boone did. he may at least jhave plenty of smaller name with his corn cakes. And "varmints" whose fur is as sal able as gilt-edge securities still are fairly numerous in sections of the old est and most densely i?opulat?w! states. Hnt taken all in all, the trapper's life Is a little t?s? close to nature to meet the demands of the average man. I>espite boyhood's hot resentment of the Insinuation, there will come a time when he will be portly and conven tional and will motor out to the coun try to take an airing and mildly ap prove the blue of distant forested hills without* regretting that he does not dwell In a log cabin, [with his dog for company, and go forth with his trusty rltle to tend his traps and kill Along ! the way the next day's supply of game. . It Is a pity, perhafis. just as it is a ! pity tha* the time will come, in aver age experience. When it will be no loug- ' er a cause of sorrow that <'ooper did not write a 10- foot shelf of Leather stocking Til les. The Floods. i Suppose the rain thut rained 1- ' inches in J 'J hours in Florence had kept It up for forty days and forty nights ? what would have become of that section of the country? Every body would have been drowned in it. What was the use of a world-wide, win ld-arouiid. Hood in Noah's day? l-'. r M.r pfirt. we believe Noah's flood v\ M ? only local, covering only that part of t?he earth that was then inhabited. Newberry ( Mifcerver. one death from infantile paralysis has been rejiorten from < !rceiivllie. The patient was about 14 months of age. There Is A case of the disease nl Buf falo. 1 "nion 'county. Will Hunter Is dead and II. P. Ka toii Is behind the bars of the county jail at Anderson on a charge of mur der. This Is the result of an alterca tion between these two parties, pre cipitated by a heated controversy, and resulting ultimately in Laton -.tabbing Hunter to death with a Barlow jM.cket knife. FOR RENT WANTS i FOR SALE FOR RENT ? Rooms for Jitrht house keeping. Also furnished room-. Ap ply to Mrs. Fleda Ilon^'ti 111 i>e Kalh St., <*?mden S C ir?^ WANTED? Male Fox TVrrior i >u l ?I>JT. Address, Box -67, Camden. FOR SALE ? At Spalding Junction. one three room honse with beautiful hall wny. Also one nnri half nore- lanjjl. Price very reasonable. Se?? <;at?n Ballard, (iamden, S. C. 14 1 *5p FOR SALE CHEAP.? One 19 11 model B-37 Buirk, Ave passenger touring car, 35 horsepower. Goo<l condition. Apply at Chronicle office. 15-tf, CYLINDER REBORINO. ? < ?wnors of automobiles, motorcycles and station try engines can now have their ey limlers rebored, and oversize pistons titt^l in any sir*' from 2 .1-4 inches to .1 l ie inches in diameter, at W; Hay's <?arage and Machine shop, Camden, S. C. * b"Vl8fc> NOTICE? I wish to Announce t< ? the public that after Aug- 1ft. lfHrt, I will sell meat for CASH OXI.Y to one and to all the same. Roberta* Meat Market, W. C. Roberts. prop.' 13-14 lop PEAS for sale. HO or 70 hu.shels otf ??owpeas at $1.00 per bo. Will <*>11 In xmall^r quantities If desired. Apply at T. J. Boy-kin's afore, lower hro*d ntreet or phone 291 -J. ON SERVICE? Registered Hereford Bull At my farm near DeKalh. Fee $1.00. W. A. BdwarrK lOtf mm 5c WHEN lunch or supjier seems a long time off and you're hungry, eat Uneeda Biscuit, x Just enough to satisfy ? to keep you going till meal time ? but so light and crisp and flaky that they won't spoil your appetite.^ NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY "I'imw de Hal." Tin* colored (tarson had jusl con cluded a j>owerful sermon ??i? "Kalva t ton am Free." ami was announcing (hat a collection would hi' taken for the benefit of the parson and Ills fam ily. I *p jumped an acutely brunette brother in tin* back of the church. "Look a-yeah, jmhson," lie Interrupt ed. "yo* ain't no sooner done tellin' ns dat salvation am free dan ,vo' j?o askln' us fo' money. If salvation am free, what's de use In payin' for it? J hit's what 1 want to know. An' 1 t?-ll yo' p'lntedly dat I ain't tfoin' to >rib yo' nothln' until I tind out. Now ? " "Patience, hrudder, patience," said the parson. "I'll 'lucidate. S'pose yo' was thirsty an' come to a river. Yo* could kneel rlirht down an' drink your till, couldn't yo'V< *Vn' it wouldn't cost yo' nothln*. woubl'it "Ob co'se not. Mat's jes' dt very thln^ "Mat water would be free." contin ued the parson. "Hut. s'posin' yo' was to hah dat water pi|ied to yo' house, yo'd have to pay. wouldn't y??'V "Vas. suh. lint *' "Waal, brudder. so it is wld salva tion. I >o salvation ;iin free, but it'< dc . Iiii bin* it |>l|?'d to yo' (hit yo' L'<>t t<> pay fo*. Pass de hat, deacon : pass dr hat." THK LKATHKRWINC; It AT. Hy ('. A. U There are eerfain small ereatnres. thoiirli they may be perfect ly harmless, for s\h??m we have an Inborn anfipa thy: a ii< I the mere thought of touching one. ?ieiuls eohl shivers praneint: abanx ones <pine. Sneh an one is the com molt Utile, bat of the twilight. No mat ter how soft ami velvet-like Its fur, no matter how satiny the expanse of It* wings, no matter how bright Its eyes, somehow we just can't love a bat. There Is something uncanny about a tielng. that waits until the day is gone and the gatherlng^hadows are giving ghostly shapes to the most familiar ob~ jeets, before it ventures out. The one redeeming trait of the bat Is his habit of spending about nine-tenths of his na tural life asleep in some gloomy eave all by himself, and out of everybody's way. Hut notwithstanding all this, it is interesting to study this little flying mouse, foi^ that is about what he is, when the matter 'is simmered down. He is about three inches long, and liis body is covered with fur of a gray ish shade, brightening into a rusty red underneath. When you look him squarely in the face, you may be struck with the resemblance to a tiny little bear, and his small mouth which is generally wide open is just running over with teeth. His eyes are small and bright, like two little black beads, ears prominent and ratty. His wings really are not wings at nil, but are only a thin skin stretched between his fingers. These fingers, or toes, as you might prefer to call them, are very long ami serve like the ribs of an umbrella, to support the mem brane and to regulate its motions. The tirst of these fingers is loos*' and is used as ;i toe in pulling itself forward, and also as a convenient hook, when be feels like hanging himself up oiit. of the way. The hind feet are not con nected at all with the flying apparatus, though they are precious little use in walking. When a bat folds up its ' wings, the elbows stick way up above bis head, and he presents much the ap |K>aranee of a small fur stump, with an uuU'ryihi UuuiIuk HiwHwt-55^ You will (generally tlud hlw %\ in the darken!* Plumpest, ^ * I"-"'! M most uninviting eaVe or hollow ? Dml and sound asleep at that. I !?' got* lo I mm 1 at early t-aud^d ami aluiiiiiera souudiy until dirl following (lay. the time that iu.^| sects are abroad. wlwn ho cum*, In a half hearted way, and lirvl), to be really awako ami lnter**tj the big world around him. hu jl is slow, and seemingly painful, j consists of a series of awkward flag Ho Iihk never learned lu.salUrfl but If misses oiu? Hap, doajl comes. An hour Of so at a iiu,J about an p| as he can sustain fl laborious method of navigation, itf hooii g?'ts t lr?nl and sleepy. nudiM l^ais for tlM? ^dght. IttrdnH'ii ,J lertrp but little from hliu In ihe w?yj a i ll"' 'flying. , Ho fowls oil gnats. n,us,,ui,(Wl, and lUK'tnrnal Insert* uf ,|U ki ' UUJ] with open mouth. takes them .J, * ifiUic !\llul)i> <?lion.Ki.. goes, busily chewing on one until moots another. It Is only on evenings that ho will leave* lUs (J all, rain, mist or even elouds are M tleleht excuse for him to turn ?vw t another nap; until the weather eka up. Any animal that ran sleep, hj! Inn head down from a hook surely?, enjoy sleeping, and the fact that I sleep* all day, and all of the night >cept a few hours in the early oveui and besides that he indulgctUn * u feet debauch of rest from XepteaJ to May, would seeni to indicate u slumbering is his strong forte. The I tiniute home life of the hat Ik |n ing' with his other habits ? erratle, \ decided, and slouehy. The mothera vldfcs no nest or bed for .the tw? tlve small closed parasols, that shea trident her babies. She suckles U while asleep, aud when the calk hunger forces her abroad for a 5 lunch fche hangs them up, one hj( on the walla of the eave by the U hook that pa tu re has provided, 1 knows she will find them sgfej asleep when she returns. In select her home, the bat Is less partly than most, of the little wood pt?( a deserte?l woodpecker's lade, a oiW under a rock, a chink in a wall, 1 place, so it Is damp and disagreed answers her purpose all right. Aki lute quiet is what she desires a pit where she and her babies can sin her in ]>eaee, undisturbed by light sound. Iu some parts of the counto where there are great muler xroa caverns cold, draughty. tonib-BI vaults, the bats gather by huildre and hang In clusters from the ?* like fur-coated stalactites. Sometia a bat finds its way^into our how usually into the brightest lighted root where it circles and circles, iir its fru tic effort to escajie. It was not at trftcted by tho light, as people supjxii but by the moths and other Instd around the lamp. When he finds that he has blundered Into somebody's & ting room he would certainly aixrioji if he could, so he does the next thlaj! he tries to get out. Take h lone hu die broom and attempt to thresh hia down and your admiration for ti dodging ability will grow by leaps u bounds. Yoy make your calculate to "get him" as he swings around eerfaiu corner? there he comes!, f make *'a desperate swipe and su< in dislodging the window shade, an assortment of bric-a-brac, hut bat just as the broom was sclied to bit him, did a back-action ? sauit. that only served to put hlin on bis journey around the room KERSHAW COUNTY Sunday School Association WILL CONVENE i THURSDAY, AUGUST 3RD, 1916 At Lyttleton Street Methodist Church at Camden, 1 FOR A TWO DAYS SESSION - # First Session Will Open at 10:30 a. m. Night Session at 8 P Every white Sunday School in Kershaw County is urged to send three ^ who will enroll at either morning or evening services, after which they will be a ^ ed to homes. A full attendance is desired. Interesting and instructive addresses . - made and we hope to have the Sunday Schools of the County well : . . - -.^3 DR. A. W. HUMPHRIES, Sec. and Treas. A. J. BEATTIE, President FOR IMMEDIATE SALE We have several small Farms for immediate sale, at t ~ -* ? ^ prices and terms that will attract you. If interested, see CAMDEN' LOAN & REALTY COMPANY i- * ? ? -vv-SvV ? "* ? ' OFFICE 2ND FLOOR MANN BUILDING H. P. FOUST, Manager. Phone 38 CAMDEN, S. C.