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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE Hroad Street, win! enteral at the i-aiu dvii jKMitottlw us hwoihI elans mull mat tor. I'rloe |Hir milium We are glad to receive communion - tloiiN of h reasonable length, tint an Important condition of their puhllcu (too In that tlicy kIiiiII In all cavea Ik* a ccoinj united by the full name anil exact address of the Homier. Obitu aries, resolutions of respect, ami church notices will not In? charged tor. Mat ters of purely a iiersonal nature will ho charged f?>r at the rate of Ave cents a line. Whiskey or patent medicine advertisements will not he accepted at any price. Hates for display adver tising niado known on application. The small I ?? ? \ i-. happy today. The elretiM is in town. I.er him go to it and ha vo a Idg day. Homomla*r, old moss hack, you were a hoy once upon a time. The circus is educational as well as amusing. There will be many a little r ? ?r today, who will lay their eyes on a big Indian for tlie first time In their lives. A numher of our promiiieiit fellow citi/.cu.s will go to Columbia fair week (<? attend a union of the alumni of Keeley I list it ute.- The < ii eeiiville News Now any ahlobodlod person can con tent himself to loaf and heat Ids liv ing off of Nome one else- Is a mystery that needa explanation. The law de tlues such persons as vagrants and makes provision to meet their case. ? Kershaw Kra. Another tiling that we cannot understand Is how a white man huvlng tlfe coiitidence of his fellow man can deliberately set out to eon tract a debt with the Intention of de frauding him. There are some of tlie.se Hcamps In this community, but we are glad to know tlmt the public and busi ness men are gotlng onto them and they are not going to have easy sail ing from .now on. A communication signed by a well known citizen of Camden in the Chron icle today registers a kick on the Cam den highways. in this he Is right. Camden has used the same old method of working the streets for a number of years. Many dollars have boon spent In tom'iiorary Improvements only to be j washed away when the next rain comes along and the 'work continues from year to year. We. believe the street commissioner does his very best with the means at hand, but what Camden needs to do Is to get out of the old way of patching up her streets and be gin making permanent roadways To The DemorcatH of Kershaw County. It has been called to my attention | that the newspapers in this State, here- j toforc pretending to be democratic, are openly advising their leaders that they are not hound to vote a ticket nomi nated in the primary in the general e I cot ion. In view of this circumstance, it is highly advisable that all good demo ? crat s ho wtdo~awaRe al tliis tinio. and turn out in full strength and vote on election day. The Presidents and Secretaries of ail Democratic Clubs are especially ur?:ed to see that the members of their rluhs uo to the foils on election day in \o \ umber L. \. Wittkowsky County Chairman. .1. <i. Kllerbo. former congressman from South ('aroliua. and brother of former (iovernor ICIIerhc, died at Ashe vlllo. N. after a long period of 111 heal tli. The burial tn.-k place near Marion. (teorge S. I irafts, judge of probate of Lexington county, is confined to his room suffering from Injuries sustained by a fall. Judge Drafts has held ottive in I.exington cotmty continuously fur thirty-two years. Judge M. L. Smith, of Camden, was one of the speakers at the South Caro lina utpial Suffrage League held in Charleston Tuesday. (Io\. Manning will recommend In bis next message the establishment of a liomo for the feeble-minded. Camden, S. October '0, li)il\ ? F ? FRESH BUCKWHEAT FLOUR GEORGIA CANE SYRUP - FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES CELERY, LETTUCE BELL PEPPER TOMATOES TELEPHONE No. 2. LANG'S High Grade Grocery ? "Where Quality Counts." _i (TUSK OF THK IJQI'OK THAFW^ 1^1 TnifwfrTaT fSHtor 1 Suuiui iitx-trlne. (In a recent bulletin of (lit' Vint HaptUt church of Ihiltiinorc, Mr. Rich ard II. kdiuunds, I lit* dlxt ingulshcd editor of I ho Manufacturer's Kcx'ord guvc the following statement concern lug the lh|?ior traffic.) "When a moral Immjo Is involved It ?hoi)ld never ,l>e lecessnry to discus* tin* economies of the illicit Ion In order Id- enlist public interest ; for moral welfare Is Infinitely above material. "Nu man who U not willing to ho an aVtivu agent in making his own. hoiih and daughters drunkards, should he willing to he a co-parlm r In mnkli ^ drunkards of other i?copU*'H sons ami daughters. , "Any man who measures the li censed liquor t rattle from the staud polut of whftt he thinks will he the effwt on business, Is (>verlooklnjf the moral responslhlllty to help save his ow n family, and the families of others, from Iterating drtiukards or the vhv tlms of drunkards. "To the extVnt that we passively or actively permit the licensed lh|Uor. tralllc we are partners with the saloon, sharers In all Its fearful curse of drunkenness, delmuchery, Immorality, and political rottenness. "hut as some j>eopJc will consider the question from the vlew|K>int of Its effect on huslness rather thai) from its moral staml|>o!nt, let us study that side of the question.. In t lie states and cities where pro hibition has been enacted and the law vigorously enforced, there has not" only been great improvement In moral con ditions, but likewise in business con dit Ions. The facts as to hnslncs? con ditions. The facts as to business Im? j rovenieut are abundant that any attempt to deny tids truth and to claim that prohibition hut* lessened business pros|H?rity absolutely lack* foundation and Is Indicative of the dlllicultlcs which the liquor tratllc linds In presenting any argument In favor of its business, except th??se based ?m falselns sis. "The railroads of t tie country, re cognizing the evil of the use of alcohol as a beverage, have forbidden their train employees to use It either otT or on duty. Hut probably the most slgnl tlcant movcinent that has Ikmmi made In the. country by great business con ccrns to fight the use of alcohol be" erages is that of the lending iron and steel men who are aggressively fighting the liqWor tratllc. "The story # of what many of these meat Iron and ft eel concerns are do inu was strikingly presented in a late Issue uf the Manufacturers Record giving a list of many of the foremost iron and steel enterprises in the cen tral west who are aggressively fighting the. liquor business.' The names of these concerns are known to all the business men of America ; they rank among the greatest labor employers in tin* world. They represent over $1,000,000,000 of Invested capital and employ several hundred thousand men. The very fact that these con sents are aggressively fighting the use of alcohol is the stongext pos sible testimony that could be given to ?he fart that prohibition dues not in jure business but that on the con trary is beneficial to employers as well as to the employees. They are doing all in their power to keep their employees Xrmn drinking not only while at work but when off duty. Many of them re port that they will not employ men who take a drink even when oft' duty. It is a statement which eannot he dis proved: it is an unanswerable argu ment to all that tin* liquor interests en ii say against prohibition. "The statements made in advertise ments in the dally papers, in the in terests of the liquor iratlie. that busi ness has been Injured in sotttluu'n ? it ie? by prohibition are absolutely false. Richard II. Kdmonds." To Discuss 1'aper Situation. Columbia, Oct. 10. ? Will la ih lianks. I ?!??'?< It lt*ii t . t < u i i kIi t issued a call for a special meeting of tlu> South (Carolina Press Association to I >*? hold in Colum bia Friday of Fair week. Octol>or 27. The meeting has been called t<> discuss i he white pa|>er situation. BLEASE BALI/OTS OFFERED. 1 Hhise Paper I'rges Partisans to In dependency. The Scimitar, a semi-monthly po litical pa | M*r edited l?y a Blease par tisan. W. P. Heard, and published at Ahhe\ ille, displays conspiclously a hallot headed "For Coventor: Cole I.. Please." and calls upon "the He forni 1 >eiiHH-rats" to vote that ticket. The Scimitar -says that Mr. Blouse himself, hound h.v the pledge ho took in heoomlng a candidate, is obliged to ahide hy the decision of the ex ecutive committee, which nominated it. I. Manning, and therefore he will not likely make a statement. "But the voters are not hound hy anything hut tim oath to support the nomi nee." The Scimitar says: "and a ma jority has the right to say who is tjte nominee." Following is the hallot publish**! hy i ho Scimitar, with tin* caption. "Our Ticket :" "For Governor, Cole I.. Blease: for lieutenant governor. A .1. Bethea : for attorney general. Thomas 11. l'eeples; for secretary of State. \V. it. Dove: for comptroller general. Carlton \V. Sawyer; for State treasurer. S. T. Carter; for ad jutant general, W. W. Moore: for sn|H>rintendant of education. J. E. Swearlngen : for commissioner of ag riculture. commerce and industries. ]]. j. Watson; for congressman, third district, Fred II. I>ominlck; for solicitor. Eighth circuit. If. S. Black well." The Scimitar ap|**nds a foot note. -To those l>elow the name of IMease this admonition ; "Silence Is golden." and also "Tako ye no heed for tomorrow, for tomorrow ye may die." The State. It is believed that Herman Porth, age ID years, of I^xlngton, holds the holt for this country as a cotton pick er, this young man having picked fWO pounds In 111 hours anil 15 mi ante?." The young man, according to tola par ents. picked this enormous amount of cotton on Friday. September 23, thl* year. ? ? There are about 1.300 gas plant* in* thin country. SALKMN FAMOUS IKAR TKKF Tfc?rw of Fruit Thai WMtilnvtoii Liked is 208 VWh OM. >>???"" -i ? Two hundred a lift eighty yearn ago the colonial governor t?f Massachu setts, John Eudlcott, purchased a vast tract of land at I >avenport, then known an the southern iwcttou of Saleui vil lage, The estate afterward became known ax the Kmilcott plantation. (Jov, Kndlcott. being a great lover of sugar (tears, sent to a relative in "Dorchester, England, for a |M?ar t ?????*. After several months the tm? mm4v?*0 ami at that time few people ltd loved that the t ree would live, as the r<tots had become very dry. The governor, believing that ,h?v bet ter than any one els**, whs (he proper man to plant the tree, Jvurneycd to the plantation, and there. In a shelter ed spot to Danvem river, dag a hole and carefully planted his treasured tree. For many years the governor cared for the tree himself, ami It was not long before it became the inoet fa mous of all fruit trees of Massachti setts. Each year for nearly three centu rles the tree has never failed to ?up ply an abundant crop of Juicy sugar ]H*a rs <tf the tliiest quality. This year there was nearly M.OOO invars on the tree. Few lteople who visit Pan vers miss the opportunity of seeing this wonderful tree. which Is carefully guarded by a picket fence. The Kndlcott tree is thought to be the oldest fruit tree in North Ameri ca . and It Is very doubtful if there In a tree in existence t>earlug such a bountiful crop at this age. The tree Is made up of three dis tinct trunks, which are partially de cayed. although the npi>er section of the tree Is quite healthy In ape*ir ance. Kndlcott himself used to relate that the tree supplied a . utllcient number of I *ears to supply the entire .Salem vil lage. In those days ther^ were less than 100 inhabitants in the village.; to day the name territory lias a popula tion of nearly 1 00,000. When Gov. Kndlcott died In 16(15 special mention was made in his will In regard to his famous tree, which was left In care of his daughter. Washington, .Lincoln and Daniel Webster are among the many men to taste the fruit of this tree. It Is claimed that the fruit of this tree claimed that the fruit has l>een eaten at the royal palaces In Jiondon.? Bos ton Globe. Ill Agreement So Far. A judge famous for his wit oucO had a sase before him in which the plaintiff was represented by a very nervous young lawyer. When the law yer rose to begin his address to the Jury he stammered out. "My unfor tunate client ? " and there he stuck. He tried again, and in a shaking voice he managed to say. "My unfor tunate client ? " and could get no farther. Clearing bis throat, he had another try and for the third time quavered out. ".My unfortunate client ? " and airain his voice failed. "Come, ronie. Mr. ? ." said Ills lordship. "proceed with your .state ment ! So far the court agrees with you !" Sellers & Padgett, of Columbia, S. C.. have signed a contract to build a new cotton mill at Carhartt station, live miles above Rock Hill, on the Ca tawba. fi>r Hamilton Carhartt ?>f De troit. r John A. Foxworth. a well known merchant of Mayesville, Sumter coun ty, died at bis home at tlia* place on Saturday night of acute Indigestion, being ill for only a short while. The governor has apftointed Edward Mclver, of Clieraw. to preside over the court of common pleas for Saluda coun ty beginning on December i. instead of Judge Spain who is ill. John I\ Parker, of McColl. was kill ed by a train at Montgomery. Ala. He was a member of the Alabama Nation al (tiiard. Dr. W. < >. Wrightson. of Spartan burg. was seriously hurt when n tele phone' jH>le fell across li is automo bile and struck him in the head. The roecorder of Spartanburg on Friday lined Jas(ter Sanders $."> for strapping a few weeks old calf over the handle ltars of his bicycle while en route to a slaughter pen with the animal. PRESCRIPTIONS It I* important fhat a prescription bo proporly filled: Carelessness may mean t !??? death of a loved <?no. Never any mistakes here. We are exact. We use only the Purest. of Drugs. We supply everything in the I>ni? Line at moderate prices. CLYBURN DRUG CO. Telephone 73. - - ~ iirMfl OVFB THff WATS l,ast Sunday afternoon ?our Suiuter, l>ouglas Jackson, a colored man living oii tli?' farm of Mr. William Pr?*o6U, killed Ids wife, ICH/.alK'th, by crushing her sk till with a table leg. Chas. M. Hehwab, the lViiunylvauia steel magnate, says I hat ho believes I^ii'd Kitchener wan right whew t?<? pre dicted t hit t tho war would last tlvo yearn. Congressman Love** has gone to Kil% sas on ii shaking tour for President \N UMU, J Fnuik Stewart, of Cheati^'. hail his hand badly lacerated In a cotton gin. Kain Fnderwood, IX years of ago, was killed hy a Southern train near Seneca. Miss Anno Sheltou, of .Mobile, Ala., kindergarten teacher at tin* Wesley II oust* in Spartanburg, died from the result of burns sustained when hIio I n mod over an alcohol lamp. It. I,. ltoggs, Jr., tlvo yoars old, wua run over and seriously injured by an automobile at Kasley. \V, U. llradford, of Fort M U I . will run for congroHH In Ibis If Oongross man Fin ley retires. President K. J. Watson has called a meeting of the Southern Cotton <\>n- j gross for I >oceml>er 1U In Norfolk. .Ins. It. Heath, l?aggage master at the Southern station In Hock Hill died sud denly Wednesday morning while .sit ting at his home reading a newspaper. A largo party of protq>ectors from Indiana, Illinois and Canada were in < I'oorgetown last week liis]>octlng lands! with a view to buying and settling. S^nie have bought and others are ex pecHug, t*? buy. Walter Scott, who lives at a mill In i Abbeville granted the request of it ne gro who asked to be allowed t > ride with Mr. Scott Saturday afternoon. The next Scott knew ho was lying In the foot of his wagon gagged, and his |Hickotbo<ik containing $75 whs gone. ? of course, the negro was gone too, and | lie has not boon found. W??sley \\ ilson was killed when he attempts! to jump off an Atlantic Coast Line train at Sumter. HIS PRISON TERM TOO SHORT Californlan Reveals That He Forged Check to Get Benefit of the Prison School. Joseph Dletz, Oakland, Cal., chauf feur. according to his own story, passed a bogus check in order to break into San Quentln pjrlson, so that he might "g?t an education." Recently when he drew a sentence of 18 months from Judge Edgar T. Zook he was sorely disappointed. "I wanted at least four years," he told Sheriff J. J. Keating. "A man can't learn much in eighteen months. A jolt like that Is just so much wasted time." Dietz explained that he had been "going crooked" for a long time, and attributed his misdoings to lack of learning. "I heard all about those free schools down at San Quentin," he said, "and made up my mind that I would like to fit myself for something better than driving a grocery wagon or an auto mobile, so I sltppM^over a check, ex pecting at the time to be caught." Dletz is twenty-eight years old, and | has a wife, and two boys, aged four ? and five. The Princess theatre, leading picture .show in < ieorgetown. burned last Wed nesday. The loss in $.'l,r>(X> with insur ance of THE MEETINGS OF THE BIBLE INSTITUTE ARE TO BE HELD IN THE ARMORY (The Old Baptist Church) ? A NEW SERIES OF INTERESTING LECTURES m BE GIVEN DURING THE MONTH OF OCTOBER Ah, NOVEMBER ON THREE NICSHTS A WEEK? SUNDA1 TUESDAY AND THURSDAY^ . v, THE GREAT SUBJECT OF "THE MARK OF BEAST" WILL BE THE FIRST ONE ON SUNDAY, 0C<VI BER 22, AT 8:15 O'CLOCK. THE OTHERS FOLLOW: Tuesday, Oct. 24 ? "Christian Baptism." Thursday, Oct. 26 ? "Christian Temperance; What it include?" SUNDAY, October 29 ? "Arc the Jews to Return to Jer salem?" ' .< .. ? ? Tuesday, October 31 ? "How the Gospel Should be P?Thursday, Nov. 2 ? "Walking in the Light." SUNDAY, Nov. 5 ? "Christian Science in the Light of Reason and Revelation," Tuesday, Nov. 7? "Present Truth. , Thursday. Nov. 9 ? "The True Church (Rev. 12th Chip,] ter.)" ''W SUNDAY Nov. 12 ? "The United States in Prophecy." 3 Tuesday, Nov. 14? "The Seven Last Plagues." 1 Thursday, Nov. 16 ? "The Earthly Sanctuary." v SUNDAY, Nov. 19? "The Investigative Judgement." PLAN TQ ATTEND THESE MEETING Rev. Charles (*.' Bradford, a retir ed Baptist minister, died yesterday at Kllenton. Up to Them. Little James, iiged tf, had been taught to pray each night for all his relatives and friends, and consequently the list had grown quite large. So one night when it came time for the customary prayers he refused to say tiiem. "Well. well. .Tames!" ?ald his. moth er. "Why don't you say - them? All good little boys say their prayers." "Yes, but I'm too tired." "Oh. my, that's no excuse. Come now. that's a good bay." "Well." relented .James, "I guess I'll have tu. Hut, anyhow, I'm not going to pray for everybody. I'm going to cut a lot of 'em out. Some of 'em will have to save themselves." No Illiteracy in South Cariiina in 1920. The South Carolina Schol Improve ment Association has npiwinted Nov ember 15th as "No Illiteracy Day" in the state, and letters have l?ecn sent to county officials, college presidents etc., throughout the state to this ef fect but it. is impossible for any move ment to succeed without .help from the press. In 1910 one-fourth of the population of South Carolina could not write theH- liiiwcs. By l?)20 we want m jM HHternto fiv the state. Kentucky taught 40,000 men and J meb to read ami write in two yearS 18 other states have started a slmilfl fight against Ignorance. Shall ixfl .South ^Carolina keep up wltti otbl states? . Of our 100 mills, 08 had ulgll schools last year, with over 5.000 esa rollment. Besides there were a immta of city aiul rural night schools. Tbi was a good start, hut if. we are U have no illiterates hy 1920, wheu 'k next census is taken, we must do !*(? ter. The press in other states has 1h*i generous and faithful in its assist a nee. Will you do -the sauie for Soutk Carolina? Urge teachers, advanced ikk pils. and all educated people tj I cadi; at least one Illiterate, iwlltlclaiw W vote an additional tax for the main ten a nee of night schools, niinistets h preach uir^tfie^sunject \ov. lNtliTJilF ors to start schools for their prison ers, and arouse the public in K?-wnl Will you for the next three year* keep this subject so before the jnMir that we need no longer Ik1 ashamed of our state? Success dciH'nds la rgcly o'i your co-operation. Wheu we iucceso "in 11)20, will your pn]>er hr.ve a right to claim its just share of the glory / S. ('. School Imphovement Assa, K. Julia Selden. Slip a few Prince Albert smokes into vour system! ?2? You've heard many an earful about the Prince Albert^S f patented process that cuts out bite and parch and lets you smoke your fill without a comeback! Stake your bank roll that it proves out every hour of the day. Prince Albert has always been -sold without coupons or premiums. We prefer to give quality I There's sport smoking a pipe or rolling your own, but you know that you've got to have the right tobacco! We tell you Prince Albert will bang the doors wide open for you to come in on a good time firing up every little so often, without a regret! You'll feel like your smoke past has been wasted and will be sorry you cannot back up for a fresh start. " - * ? r~~" Y ou swing" on this say-so like it was a tip to a thousand-dollar bill I It's worth that in happi* ness and contentment to you, to every man j who knows what can oe gotten out of a chummy jimmy pipe or a makin's cigarette ?with Princfc Albert for "packin gM! I. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO. WiMtw-Safca. N.C Thla la ?h? hhih ?kit of Ik* Mr red tin * Tiff red tlft, T&Sft i tin. ??* * fact, *-*3E3Eh DfocMi by j '/T,!/tf? ** ^ mad*. And by*** '?"?/ pt*T tsro? p-?* ?*? tf^LSSi* _ "swsts&a pound ? n 3 ft tin humidws that .pOT1??-W^*, ,t? top^tbatk**^ tobicc" ?? conait^r ? K3y?w^a