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| poetic*! fUUftUn. Lfj tf tofcl ot a little bo nae* It orer the ?**. who, when Udbtff sbe rotttwd that she inV way different after uniting L ( hurcb fr<Ha what alio bad fuiv. I bolide for an instant , umiliux brightly. Mid, "Well, the corner**4 Hho couhl bard I given a better domoustraUon L.i in.* of brr rollgtout life, i Herafcl Not So Far Wrong. I too written all tbo inviUt Juiy i?rtj. mamma?" queried L O El, jr." answered ber mother Ce all written and mailed.** Qotv soo" will the tcceptlons iptkma to come li?y" [News. 1 1 ?? ? Work of a Beacon. , 1 flashing tH'acon 011 ltlcb ;k. a wavo swept spot west of f, Barbara Clauds. California, (bout alteation. will flash its every three seconds for soven oTpr 0,000,000 Hashes, beforo j rccliarylnt; with gus.^-Ar All Sortm. IrtWa-se?** different styles nt?r K officers of our lodge. Bach | plug bat the year bo was HCibws City Journal. I bo ej re and to aaapect no > greatest prerogative of r. Johnson. out PAIN ! oil liniment. That** wav to 8 top them, rubbing liniment is f for the Ailments of Mules, Cattle, Etc* / for your own A ches, | Rheumatism. Sprains, 1, Barns, Etc; $1. At all Dealers. I L. Kirkland Ieyor and civil ENGINEER in Crocker Building, r Main and DeKalb Streets * N, S. C. A. ALEXANDER Veterinarian STABLES. 16?. Night Phone 23. IfBf TO LOAN. ?ed (arms. Easy terms. P- B. Clarke. Camden, 8 60. L GREGORY Veterinarian of all Animals. Night promptly answered. Phone S01-L. Pi* TO IX)AN - V ? K8TATB ? EAST. TERMS G. voaTresckow. ? ?? KERRISC^ Deotitt [OTtr Bruce's Store St s. Phone 186 LUHfij [CTURING CO. WORK >RS, BLINDS lumber STS. Pk?ne 71 *IA,S.C. STEVENSON WBmsT " a. a GUIDED B? BEACONS I f J ' ? 'f LIVES OF TRAVELER8 SAVED BY "LAND LIQHTHOU8ES." Safety Signals on Desolate English Waters Were a Neoesslty In Times Gone By? Many of Them Still \ In Existence. Of all the remarkable lighthouses In existence, end there are mauy of them, what la described us "the only land lighthouse" U the moat extraordinary. This Is the lofty tower, 100 feet high, on the lonely levels of UucoIq 11 oath.' five miles from Lincoln, In the parish of Duuston. It la known us "Dunston Plllur," says h writer lu London An swers. When the strange building first came Into being In 1761 Lincoln heath was easily the most daugerous waste place In England. About twenty miles square, It had theu no made roads, no > signposts and uo Inclosing hedges. Travelers found It a risky place to venture in, especially in the short days of winter. The registers of Leaslngham church, on the outskirts of the vast solitude, contain accounts of the burials of many unfortunate travelers who lost their way htrre and perished In snow storms and tempests. So notorious wecft those dangers that at Potter Hanworth and at Blank ney, In this region, there are pieces of land bequeathed as thank-offerings by strayed Wayfarers whose lives had been saved by hearing the church bell's chimes, so that their steps were guided to shelter. The revenues from therfe lands were Intended to secure the continuance of those nightly ring ings, so that no others should run such risks. % It was Francis Dashwood, Lord le Pespeoser, who built Dunston Pillar. It served ad a signpost by day and ;,i?S u beacon by night, being at that -lime surmounted by a lantern, which was brilliantly Illuminated. But, after some fifty-nine years, a j good road was at last made across | these wilds and the lantern was no \ longer considered necessary. So In j place of it a colossal stone statue of , George III. was placed there in 1810, the year of his jubilee. And there It ? stands today. - ? ? Beside?' -Dunston Hilar, there are many more beacons that were intend ed to keep the old-time travelers in the right path. We have one In the neighborhood of London. This is the old Iron firepot, or cresset, on the angle turret of Monken Hadley church,, near Barnet, placed there originally hundreds of years ago for the express j purpose of guiding travelers who i hiight be coining after nightfall ! through the lonely and deeply wooded ' districts of Enfield Chase. The Iron ! pot has, of course, been often re- j newed. A ^i!?)!!uT Srcput oluuuft tin iiif to w er of GUIlngham church, near Chut hnm, overlooking the River Med way. A much more elaborate affair, which was as much a "land lighthouse" as Dunston Pillar, Is the lantern which still stands on the tower of Great Wel don church, in the Rockingham Forest district of Northamptonshire. It was lighted every night for the express purpose of guiding benighted travelers to safety through the entangled forest brakes. Of course, many of our lighthouses serving our mariners aloug our coasts are actually built on land, notably the famous North Foreland and the Lizard lights. Among the most curious of these is Dungeness lighthouse, standing on the desolate wastes of shingle on the Kentish coast. It was about 1615 when the first lighthouse was built there by a pri vate speculator, who disposed of his interest to one William Lamplough, clerk to the king's kitchen. To Stimulate Reading. Five books, fiction or nonfiction, may henceforth be drawn on one card is sued to aa adult reader from the Chi cago public library. This Is to Include fell aorta of books, except the newest fiction, which is Issued as before, only for a seven-day period, nonrenewable. "We do not expect, however,) that there will be a noticeable Increase In the number of books taken out accord ing to thl? privilege," said Carl B. Ho den, assistant librarian. "We are do ing this merely as an incentive to the public to read more. The power of suggestion Is more effective than any thing elsfe in making the public read. For Instance, one of the popular col umn conductors of a city newspaper will merely mention a; certain book, land our librarians are swamped with requests for that book, no matter how abstruse or lengthy It Is. No other book on the same subject will do." ? .Chicago News. ;1 ... 8 tart of Phrenology. The first announcement made by Fran* Joseph Gail regarding his sys tem of phrenology was In an address delivered before his medical colleagues in Vienna Just a century and a quar ter ago. (Sail was a native of Baden, but settled In Vienna In 17S1 and began the practice of medicine in the Aus trian capital. From his boyhood he had been interested In studying the Cmniums of Ids companions, and many observations and touch study convinced him that the talents and dispositions of men may be Inferred with perfect ex actitude and precision from the exter nal appearance of the skull. This theory ho elaborated In many lectures, pamphlets and books, and soon gained to the scientific werf* j GYPSIES WHO LIVE ON WATEH Fifty Thousand Nomads, It Hu ??on Estimated, "Run tha Bank*" of the Mississippi. The lower MlsslNsippi river Is one of the greatest housel>oat |>lHy regions of the United States. Beginning I** the early autumn, people who dread tho cold ami who seek a long winter rest leave Ohio uml upper Mississippi river towns and seek the thousand miles ol flowing road from Tape Girardeau to the Gulf of Mexico. This fall migra tion of humanity ? thin wandering of river gypsies Is one of the strangest in the country. It' Is said there are more than fifty thousand people living on the hundred thousand miles of navigable streams In the Mississippi ha sin. These are the Hhanty boaters, who dwell in vari ous ways on the rivers and ''rubbing the banks." Ih>sldes these river people there are large numbers of sportsmei. and temporary residents afloat In mo tor boats and houseboats, making a population of perhaps one hundred thousand, not Including the "steam boaters." who scorn the shanty boat ers. Between the two classes of river people Is a feud that dates from the old keelboat days, when steam power deprived the huge rowboats of their passenger and freight traffic. The shanty boaters are strange float ing nomads. They have many kinds of boats, which they call "cabin boat#/* and which range nil the way from a "hogpen on a raft" to luxurious gaso line-driven houseboats of large size and beautifully equipped. An iceman, whose factory Is In a lower Ohio town, slips away nt the end of his season and cruises In the low Mississippi dur ing the winter months, accompanied by hunting dogs, a deckhand, and a motor engineer. He Is a real shanty boater, because he knows all the old timers and dwells in amity with them, though he drives a $10,000 houseboat and some of his good friends live In driftwood scows covered with a tent of old cahvas patched with tor paper . ONLY BOYHOOD MEMORY NOW Writer Recalls Old Tin Safe That Stood in the Dining Room and Was Forerunner of Icebox. Ileinomber the old tin safe that stood in the corner of the dining room? 1 1 is still in use to some extent in the country, but we in the city do not encounter it so frequently as formerly. The Icechest has taken Its place, and the china eloset and the pantry have made it obsolete for the most part. Rut it was a <*v underfill invention in Its day ? and the eold food you could snook out of it when nobody was looking was the nest food in the world, remarks the i>avton (i).) News. A flimsy sort of thihg so far as the woodwork was concerned; cheap pop lar lumber stained with a cheap var nisli ? that Ls uiiout *11 it amounted to, with sheets of tin punched full of tiny holes like a nutmeg grater. It was or namental, all right, with oil of its shortcomings, for the holes were punched after a pattern, and it had a pleasing effect because you knew what it contained. Why, there was the sugar bowl on the top shelf ; they always put the sugar bowl as high as possible, just so a chap would have to get a chair to stand on when he wanted to Investigate. If the ants discovered the safe, the legs had to he placed In a little re ceptacle with kerosene In thera. Files could not get through the small holes In the tin, but the gnats passed through readily and found delight in the apple sauce that was in evidence along about this tlmo of the year. Gnats certainly liked apple sauce, but ' a boy didn't care anything about gnats when her wanted apple sauce. , Mother was somewhat artistic in her tastes. She scalloped red or pink tis sue paper and placed it upon the shelves, so the edges would drop down and present a pleasing, wavy picture when the safe was opened, but news papers were, used upon the shelves ? folded neatly and pressed down flat. There was a sort of sacred ? At mosphere surrounding the old tin sa te. It was the most used and the most useful piece of furniture about the home. The children sought it when nobody else was present, and half bur rowed themselves in its generous car- ' Ities. And now ? Just think ? we haven't seen an old tin safe for a gen ?ratioQ. * Origin c t- , The word 'Dago was originally given by sailors to Ki-aniards, Portu- - gjese aad Italians, in general. Thar? are several theories a a to its derive tion. Probably the moat widely ac cepted is that the word is a corrup tion of the Spanish name Diego, uaed aa an equlrr :?ot of the English Jack or James. Others believe it to be puiji'f a co' option or nickname de* rivtu fir*cv tne Spanish word hidalgo, which came to be applied u> any for eigner from Latin Europe. It la now used chieflj aa a nickname for Italia* Immigrants to this oountry. Much Fish Consumed In Tokyo. The 2,000.000 people of Tokyo aa* I nually spend $5 par head for -flab. Collins Brothers Undertakers for Colored People RIGHT TO SOIL OF BRITAIN Initiative of Duke of Sutherland May Bo Followed by Other Large Landowner*. The titles of the British nobility to their great landed estates rest largely upon 'military service performed by their ancestors. Such a title always hat* baen good in England, hihI will b?* hatter now that one of the k^'hIchI laml-ownlng nobles in tho kingdom has uttcst^d tils belief (but British sol diers now lighting for their country are winning an equal eluiin to a share of the land, tho Kansas City Star ob serves. The duke of Sutherland owns 1,3T?S, 1KK) acres of the soil of England. Per sonally he did not win any of it by the sword, but bis ancestors helped their sovereigns subdue Scotland and his house has not wanted for elbow room since. The duke has now con veyed back to the government the abf polute title of 12.000 acrea of this lam! and has stipulated that It shall be cut up into small farms and bestowed upon British soldiers and sailors after the war. The duke evidently takes the view that their right to It is just as good as was that of his ancestors, who won It by the same means. ller& Is perhaps a solution of the land problem in England. Back In the days of the Henrys and the Edwards a man who stood near to the king and was brisk with the sword could easily win for himself a good landed estate. Having won It, he hastened to fen ce it in and put up signs warning less fortunate persons off. The result is that England is pretty well fenced In today ? and Englishmen pretty well fenced out. But after the war, when a couple of million Englishmen come home, having performed exactly the same service that the ancestors of the owners of the fenced-in land per formed, why should there not be the same recognition of such service? In deed, when Mr. Tennnnt, secretary for Scotlund, announced the duke's pur pose in the house of commons a mem ber nsked the right honorable gentle man if he could get other landlords to follow the duke's example. To which Mr. Tannant replied that he theu and there extended a hearty invitation to other landlords to do \lkewlse. (Hear, hear.) . ?? Where All Pisces Meet. The giant log hotel at Glacier Park hns ' "Indian tepees, Alaskan totem poles, Japanese lanterns, Turkish baths, and an Alpine-clad set of wait resses. A solitary Jnp with a ram shackle 'rickshaw meets the trains. The hotel Is like the railway, for it Is us International as the meat sauce I had in Spokane, which is called Inter national because, with a spoonful of that on the tongue of a man, no one nation can hold him. Without leav ing the train one can go to Inverness or Ayr. Carlisle or Riga. Devil's Lake Is near Church's Ferry, and from Karlsruhe to Genoa Is only 30 miles. Calais and Glasgow, Madras and Zurich are all possible in a few hours, and a stop at Havre (pro nounced Ilave'er) Is made on the way to Bombay. Bremen and Hamburg are vls-a-vls, but It seems discordant soon after to slide Into Norfolk. Con centration Is the keynote ull along the line. A single day at Glacier is the experience of a lifetime. ? The Christian Herald, What Monarch* Like to Eat. Good old roast beef is the most fa vorite dish of the queen of Holland. She is also partial to mutton. The czar of Russia has a great fondness for all kinds of fish, especially codfish, sea oned with oil, pepper and garlic. He once remarked to a late president of France that he could "eat codlings twice a day." The kings of Italy and Spain both have weaknesses for sweets, such as whipped cream, chocolate and tarts. King Victor Emmanuel is also fond of the Italian national dish, called polen ta. This is a kind of meal porridge. The late pope considered polenta to be his favorite dish. He was an exceed ingly plain eater. The remarkably aged, emperor of Austria has a craving for the pecullhr dish of calves' tongues in red wine. The German emperor Is exceptionally susceptible to the temp tation of well-buttered toast. T# Classify Fruits. The internal structure of fruits is likely to giy? a useful means of classi fying the various kinds, and may prove of value in showing the relationship of varieties. In hte novel experiments, Prof. A J. Kraus of the Oregon Agri cultural college, has cut thin sections from the center of suture specimens of various apples and pears. The sec tions were first dehydrated with alco hol, and were then soaked In a mixture xylol and codar-ofe They became beautifully transparent. The vascular, system stood out distinctly, snd in many fine photographs has seemed to be always the same for any one kind of fruit, regardless of the place of growth, but his tUffered much in the different varieties. The structural dif ferences are very striking in both the flesh and the core of the fruits that were brought under observation. Gigantic Coal ship. r The largest coalship in the world ? the Mi lasso? ^recently docked in New York. She was designed by an Italian, Oapt. Kmilio Menada, who has earned a reputation for himself as an Inven tor of transporting machinery. The Ml lasso dm hold 14,000 long tons of coal and 4JB00 tons at oil. She Is a veritable storehouse of intricate bm chinery. Goal car* ran on tracks tq Chance for'a Good Living. It you uit not particular about the way you get it, a good living can be roado oir those whom the Uootora have fallal to cure.? Tojxtka capital I Ftrrt Spring SpohH. Wheels re?ille??y by ?p riv ?pokes w<\rt* putontcHl in ICnglMMl m oerly hx 1836. In Prance tn 1M9 ami In tho United Htututj tu 1831. GREETINGS IT IS A PLEASANT PRIVI LEGE TO EXTEND TO YOU THE SEASON'S GREETINGS AND WISH FOK YOU UN BOUNDED HAPPINESS FOK THE COMING YEAK AND TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR PAST PATRONAGE. G. L. BLACKWELL JoWeler and Optician Camden, S. C. The W. E. DeLoache place, situa ted three miles East of Camden. 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