Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Fiction Pensioner#. I or wi<iowM of aok Item who Pf^ike applioitlQH for peiuUou ? L IP (luriitK the month of Jft? Kapitoiuf *<> ?? 111 Aim BLV lata^r WLtm i be iH-iisioii roll c* n report Iflo Bel*"1 <?r l?y writing mo mo K-uw (?? tH' on the roll IT w. r. Kusaau^ ?F' IVjjnIoii C/onitnUttiioiu'i. lfatCB_*0 0KBVOB& Enrti?^ Indebted to the ?wt?te of l1# Hiiuwn, tJecenaed, are here Cfi^l (u make Immediate pay JOHN L. HINftON, R-diifirtl fexerajtor of the JBnUte of Hardy J I. Hlumui. s. U, 28, 1016. jf A R M LO A A ? fe.are prepared to nego Joans on improved farm p in Kershaw county at tarrate of interest Loans mn for five years. J. C. MASSEY I. C. HOUGH ollins Brothers IUB OUT PAIN - l?ood oil liniment. TfjM EfsttMR Good for the Ailments of net, Mulet, Cattle, Etc. Good, for your ou)n Aches, ?s, Rheumatism, Sprains, I Cuts, Burns, Etc. Sc. 50c. $1. At all Dealer*. fm. L. Kirkland llRVEYOR AND CIVIL ENGINEER Ice in Crocker Building, Corner Main and DeKalb Streets IMDEN, S. C. DR. S. A. ALEXANDER Veterinarian LITTLE'S STABLBS. Saturdajs and SundayB i! Phone 1(J9. Night Phone 23. HONEY TO LOAN. I improved farms. Easy terms (7 to B. B. Clarke, Camden, 8 | 60. DR. H. L. GREGORY Veterinarian ^Mtment of all Animals. Night calls promptly answered. I'hone 201-L. money to loan Real ESTATE ? BABY THUMB E. G. vonTre?ckow. Dr. E. H. KERRISON - Dentist . Office over Bracks Store W tnrt DeKalb Sta. Phooe-18 IA LUMBER ACTURING ?C0. MiLtWORlC IJSH, DOORS, BUNDS AND LUMBER Y** * HUGER STS. Vhmmm 71 I COLUMBIA. S. C. *R E. STEVENSON k. OENTI8T & 0. AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY l^?rt*roductUu Not lYobable For Krv fral Ymid to Corn*. jhni>imU\U lm written ivUHve <0 dttrv i Tue"t ui -?r? been ventured wlth?,1ifVr<M>ht'KU'H httvv ? f\h ,H, ?li,ar Hi,?l Hliuplo analysis wW'l' i?clud<-H nil Ss^'f^yS 1 hundred population. Second X.liU'.r "f "' 'h? "JJ?! w farmli iR m?rk..t. (hen. Tih,l n'.T <>?'? "Htlton flnd one hair miniU motor "14rM Hm' otM* oik iiair millions are noor iinf4>?(it.> or ?o?r<;(.N who for? rwmHU;-,."rV I1"' ,'*,'lu<,wl fr<?? ?>" I MS| )? < I 1 \ (> Olivine rllluu ?|l|, ????. ?him, 4,<hk\,hS> r??m famme? who are possible automobile buyers (Jw, UrlT vla"?> covered ' b y 11 000 owns and cliles or more than Ave 6 000 000 JK>p,,U,Uon- th^ arc about j>.000,0(K) nomo owners of which num ber only 2.000.000 now own "us Ae ' t,,<rM n>Iualn ?*< pro* pectlve ouyoi'A in this class, or ? total actual unsold market, in both i rral m^i.0 average life of ,m auto, mobile Is about five yoars in the hands 1 u-i! 8 owners; and as the man who once owns a car will not ; <*> without one, w, t "S ? elude the re-order rnurket which in the ?5)MS"JhiyT ,of 1(117 wl" b'' abou? ,M"' T of automobile butSuew will fat" a 'market of about 7.600,000 possible buyers Not more than 1,000.000 cars will be built m the coming year, leaving a possible excess market of 0,000.000 buyers at, the beginning of 1918. These figures are decidedly conserva tive because they take no considera tion of any export outtet, the people who have or will have two or more machines. Increased population, increas ed prosperity, a million or more town and city families who do not own the homes in which they live, but are well able to buy and maintain a motor car the business houses, retail and whole sale merchants who use thousands of roadsters for salesmen, and many thousands more of .delivery cars (reg ular automobile chassis with commer cial body) taxicabs and other cars for IMiblic hire. An important and noteworthy fact is vouched for by the. Editorial' Depart ment of "Automobile Topics," a well known trade authority, which has been | making a careful analysis of the com | pnrative nature of automobile service. They .state that of the 3, 0(H), 000 motor cars of all kinds in service in the United States today, they can conser vatively say from their investigation that over one-half of the mileage of the 3,000, (XX) cars is used Xor business pur. Poses/ Literally, this means that of the 3. 000, 000 automobiles running in this country today one-half or 1 ,500,000 arc used for business purposes. This leaves only one and a half million in use for pleasure or social transporta tion purjMKses. In considering the 1,500,000 automo biles in use today, which may legiti mately be classed as "pleasure cars," an important fact should l>e borne in mind, namely:" the so-called pleasure car of. today has a distinct economic use. it being only reasonable to deduce that the time and money si>ent in mo toring for pleasure or social intercourse J almost invariably takes the place of some other form of expenditure of les* actual economic value. Motoring is a pleasure that makes for broader vis ton. saner and more helpful diversions, and a more sympathetic social life. A [nation without its san? pleasures is | hopeless. Therefore, it is far from logical to consider' the so-called pleas JHJLfLfift.r of today as an added luxury.? If production increases at the aver age rate maintained for the past five years ? which is unlikely, due to great er manufacturing problems and to in ability of the selling problems and to | inability of the selling and distributive j branches to keep pace with greatly aug mented manufacturing volume ? the point of saturation will not be reached for live, six, or even /seven years. And some of the leader^ in the Industry predict that It will be a matter of ten or twelve years. All signs point to a continued de j velopment for several years to come? for just how long it is tiltflcult to say, but as in many other new fields, limi tations and curtailment of expansion, arbitrarily predicted, are merely evi dence of a shortened vision of unfa mlllarlty with all of the facts. .It lis true that materials and labor ajre more expensivo and increasingly hard to secure. This condition is not serious, nor is It likely to be. The milkers of medium and high-priced cars overcome the difficulty by an advance in their selling prices. The manufac turers bf low-priced cars build In much greater a?antltles, are protected by contracts until the end of the automo bile year, July 1917, and are able to absorb additional expense by-spreading It out over a grertt number of units and by increasing their manufacturing efficiency. This Happened Near Atlanta Atlanta,* On., Jan. 12. ? A negro 1 ly ing near Lick Ix>g Gap was recently hanged while stealing the fresh-clean ed carcass of a hog, according to a prominent north Georgia citizen bring ing the report of the rase to Atlanta. The hoc had heen killed and clean- 1 ed and hung ont for the night Next I morning the owner of the hog discov ered It miming and started ont to! trail the thief. About n mile from the house he found the hog hanging on one side of a high fcnce and the | negro thief hanging on the other side, the negro as dead as the hog, In climbing the fence with the hog on his shoulder, according to the re port, the negro had let the gamturel stick slip and it had fallen over his bm& aM snapped his neck in a trap in the twinkling of an eye The Fin* Uuiy Barber. Sampmtn anored peacefully io the chair while Delilah snipped at hia loeks, "Ik? you want It cut round or square on the neck?" she aakod. - No reply, "Would you like a sea-foam or Shain POO?" No reply* "Hair Ik getting a {title thin on top. Would you like a little tonic?" Nljeuee, "Have your w Makers trimmed?" More silence, "Next!" Whereupon Kam)*ton climbed out <>f the chair, gazed into a mirror, then mailed Into the street and pulled down a temple. Sumter jiolicemen have recently lined a number of automobile owners of that city for leaving their machines on the street without Huhta burning. The Mistletoe. It is doubtful if there is another plu ut in all the vego table kingdom around which cluster us ninny myths nut! legends and folklore tales as about this rootles*, listless parasite. Disdaining to touch so common a thing as earth, it lives out its days high up in the air, the unwelcome guest of some stronger form of plant life. Like some i>eople, it is willing to l>e dependent on another's bounty and its creed is to take, but never to give in return. In Its self it is not at tractive the stem being a sickly yel lowish green, as if the taint of jand\i ice was in its very sap; the woody tiber is surprisingly brittle and the branches are angular and stiff; au<l the leaves are thick aud unhealthy and lacking in character. The owers are insiguitlcant in size, and are of the same unhealthy hue as the foliage and the bark. About Christinas time the berries ripen into clusters of trans lucent pearls, wax-like and unreal As might be supposed the growth or mistletoe is very slow, many years being required to put on its height of two or three feet. Its span of existen ce is measured usually by the life^ of the plant on which It is fastened. Hut to be perfectly honest and fair with this vegetable hanger-on, it must be said that it is not altogether a true parasite, as the green coloring mat ter In the stem and leaves show that it does do a little towards its own sup port, in a Legitimate plant way. I?ut there is still something unnrtdf uncan ny in a plant that persists 1W ^aching the tallest trees, when by every rule the tllest trees, when by every rule of plant life It should grow close to the ground and the moss. It is found on trees that shed their leaves, and sometimes on evergreens. The books all agree in saying' that it rarely selects the oak, but in the Southern States the oak seems to be its favorite, particularly the water-oak and the red-oak. Occasionally is seen a gnarled old red-oak so completely covered bv a growth of mistletoe that, at a little distance, the tree looks as lr, it were wearing Its summer dress of leaves, even in winter. The mistletoe is an ever green and the leaves look as old and careworn as the plant itself, j It Is thought the seeds are planted and distributed by the birds. Some birds, notably the cedar wax-wing, are in ordinately fond of these Christmas! berries, and owing to the mucus-like covering of the seeds, they find trou ble In getting rid of thein. so *lie> wipe their bills, first on one side and then the other against the bark. Fiu aiiv thev push the troublesome seed down In' a crevls In the 1>ur^""d J," that wav free themselves from the seed that will not let go. Uiter the seed germinates, and a little mistle toe plant has gained a foothold forll^e A sprig of mistletoe hung from a chan delier or the Untie, of a door at Christ mas time gives any man the right steal a kiss from the maiden who may be standi**? under it; custom handed down to us from our Saxon ancestors. These same old Saxons dedicated t iibint to Venus, the Gftddess of IfOve and Beauty! From the earliest times the mistletoe has played ftn nart in the mlstlc rites and religious ricLuiil of the ancient UrlUiona. The I)S, the priests of that far-away. mCtv past, considered mistletoe grow ing on one of their sacred oaks as a direct gift from the God* umlworthy of the deepest reverence. On their New Year's day they inarched in sol emn procession through the groves until an oak was found bearing a irowth of mistletoe. An altar was er ected under the favored tree, and on the trunk they chlsled the. names of flThSnCatheR??hief Druid clothed- In spotless White, ..seeded the tre? and with a golden knife severed the mistle toe As It tell, it wa-? caught In a pure White ?loth held by the other pnesta. If the smallest fragment of t id toe touched th3 ground, i- vf be lteved to be the precursor of s6me ter disaster. The ^letoe wub then cut by the chief. Dralda^ppedit in water, and distributed among the ileoploto h3 kept 4s a charm against witchcraft and disease. In the myth ology of the Scandinavians it SHE #n arrow mode from, a pte<* of .^tletSo caused the death ofBaldur, Ihe Voree God of beauty, wisdom and ??ine?f This old legend tells us M ite' friendly gods fearing aenM tlilng might happen to BaMur, forced ?<nirsls to swear that they would ^.vTr haro. him. He was Urns charm cd against everything ttoat frnm the earth, fire, water or air. But 4. D mistletoe Bpr^DK front none of these I /Old, the God of Evil made an f rom-mlstletoe-att^ tfarf It the blind God of Strength and told him which way to point it Bal t - ??? Htruck by the arrow, andi f " ? " the SE ^5 the AU Powerful: and so the mistletoe became the symbol of In^n receiving his life and his all I from SSd.' Tven today In some P?t? .of Switzerland and Germany, the pea lnt? believe that by hiding In the bind a branch of mistletoe, they would ?T.btsto see and eonTCrse wlththe the dead. There are but a the mytbs conbeeting ? this the religious wor? In Oliiniilla New*. The Ait of Doing Wilboul. A.-, 1 1 in** gom by the virtue of aelf denlal is more and more ttppiivnl, aud th? art of doing wlt&out, more needed ? The xoclal fasclna tloua of today, the crane for dre^s, amusements, recr* tr at ion, automobillng- all the glitter aud attraction^ of a materialistic age?call loudly for self-denial and careful living. And those who try to keep pace with the crowd set a pact. (hat kills. No inun ever succeeds who doe* uot learn to do without. The very basin of rellKlon, of gtxnl eonduet, or Kood character lies In the virtue of self control. It Is the highest evedence of self-mastery and the foundation of all social and business success. Did you ever atop to watch a crowd around a street fa^lr selling some nr? tlcle of household use ? a i>otato peeler, for Instance? How he pursuaded the men that their wives could not peel imtatoes without It, und found ready purchasers, who laid down their ipiar icrs, marched home and presented the article with pride und a righteous feel lug of "helping wife In her dally la bor, " only to And he? peellug potutoes the same old way the next day? Doing without may bo difficult at times, but It gets you somewhere. All successful careers depend upon It Hav ing money and without Is a jmlnful process, but the results are mighty pleasant. Sacrifice wus never easy and self-denial never popular. Hut you can't have the big thiugs of life If you Insist upon having thousands of little things all the time. The boy who wants a bicycle must do without candy and soda and the like, but he knows his wheel will give him lusting pleasures that overbalance the little sacrifices. Having for a purpose it), not difficult, and self-denial for larger pleasures be comes a Joy. It 1s easy to follow the line of least resistance ? to do the easy thing; to follow the crowd. Hut fol lowing crowds briugs you to no de sirable goal. It is a' splendid achievement ? this doing without, and few learn it. But the structure it builds Is a lasting and beuutlful one. And the pitiful fact Is that If you do not learn to do without now there may come a time when you have to do without, and then It will be too late. That is the lesson of the i>oor house and the bread line. And as sure as you practice the siu of self gratitication and Ignore the virtue of aelf-controi, listen to the lure of the shop windows, the amusement column, the appeal that Is on every hand to spend, and let yourself go, you too will join a crowd that Is sliding down hill to nowhere, only to get a hard bump at the bottom, when It is too late to mend and wake up to vain regrets. ? Dawson News. Coin-Operated Soda Fountain. An automatic soda fountain has been patented by a resident of Houuton, Tex., which is operatyj* merely by droj> plng the proper coin Into a slot, ac cording to the February P&pular Me chanics Magazine. Contained in an attractive wooden cabinet are three tanks, 'one filled with sirup, another with carbonic-acid gas, and a third, which is surrounded with Ice, is tilled with water. Then* is also a container filled with paraffined cuj>a. When a coin Is dropi>ed Into the slot it releases , three delicately' balanced levrs, one ifter the other. The rirst allows n cup to drop from the container into an oi>cnii)g, where it is within the reach of the customer, and beneath two sjHtuts. When the coin passes the next lever it releases a spring-operated apparatus that allows the proper a mount of sirup to flow down into the cup. The third lever operates in the same manner as the second and allows a little less than a cupful of iced car bonated water to flow Into the cup. In this way the drink is properly mixed in a sanitary way and supplied to the customer without human aid. Are You Considering Livestock Raising? Clemson College, S. C., Jan. 10.? If you are a South Carolina farmer you have either one or two more years to get ready for the arrival of the Noll weevil. One method that has proven profitable and successful for combatting the weevil in other in fected statos? lK-rUvostoek- -farwing, und it is a very rare thing to find one prepared to take up this kind a?f farm ing if forced to do so. Following are Koine of the essentia Is : Take a good farm jmper and read it Jx>ok fqr the different breed adver tisements in these papers. ? Get literature given away by these breed associations and read it care fully to learn the merits of the breeds. Get a good pure bred sire of the breed you decide to keep. If possible, visit some good breed er, who keeps the breed you are in terested in and observe his outlay and methods. ^ , Get in touch with your county dem onstration agent and the specialists from Clemson. College and get their help so that you may got started right This may, save y oumuch time and use less. expenditure of money. Begin now to put in a permanent pasture of Bermuda grass and bur clo vet?f~~J i "... ? Get started . with a small plot of Attrtzzl rye, And where possible, crim son clover and veteh. Begin now to fftnoe certain parts or iim xarrn, op rntx jrou cad puif* ture cattle after eachrqropv ? Get-kti the powdblq lfljMrmattoirw slim. A sflo is an economical ne&s sity for a cattle farmer, . Select one breed of hogs; one breed of beef cattle, and one breed of dairy cattle and interest your neighbor* in this breed. J ? Get together the farmeni . in yourj county interested in stock and organ* ize a livestock association to push the breeds selected. Passing of Unique Character. They have taken "Arisona Char ley" away, says an El Paso, Texas, letter. No more will the light-heart ed transcontinental, tourist catch a glimpse of the bent, grizzled old roan trudging along the lonely tracks on the desert as they flash by. He was -idbe of the best known characters of the southwest. Twenty years ago "Arizona Charley" was an engineer on the Southern Pacific. One day at the end of his run he got word that Ida bride of a few months had been killed In a train wreck. . A broken rail had caused the wreck. He re signed am) began walking tho traekN ?vor tin* tlvo-hnndrt?d mile atreteh \>t deaert between Yuma and K1 Pano, l<K?k i i?k for broken rails. With a blan ket and a frying |>an vlung ovor bis shoulder he has .tramped hi h beat win* ter and summer for twenty years, re |M?rtiiiR defects In tbe traek at the near est neotlon house, He Iiuh never rid den on a train aluee his wife wan kill ed. Ntwrl y evory tourist over the southwestern route bat* ?een "Ariaoim rharley." Conductor* an<l Pullman l*>rters always pointed bln? out ?n tb* train spoil i?hhI leaving hhn u speck lit On* deaert. Of lute yours tho old lAau has t>eoouie feeble and now th? Cochise eonnty <H>urt haw adjudged him lnsaue and committed him to the state asylum. Have You Ever Been Burned Out by Fire? 1 1 * u If you have, you know the feeling of despair that sweeps over you when you realize that the savings of a life time have gone up in smoke. You know the dreariness of the future when you con template starting all over again at your time of life. ? You know the grayness of life to your family when they are suddenly reduced from affluence to poverty. You know that it is easy to get down, but a hrad mat ter to get up again. Insurance will protect you from all of these hardships and we furnish the most reliable insurance at the lowest possible rates. Williams Fire Insurance Agency PHONE 52. Camden, S. C. ' % Ay V. . A Store Full of Fruit j \r^ That's just what we have and more too, for we carry at all times anythipg that you want in the candy line. *?* Fresh vegetables of every description are always carried in season. It's impossible to enumerate the many tempting things that we have, but whatever you want, it's hefre for you and we want you to come here and get it. Camden Candy Kitchen Spero^Beleo?,(Prop. Telephone 79 t ?are always ready to light ovary nook and corner of tbt house. Bailt of aolid brats and nickel plated, they last a lifo time. Eaty to carry ? easy to All ? easy to clean. Use Akuldin Security Oil? the moll economical keroeeneotl? for beat results. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (Haw Jeraa?) BALTIMORE. MO. Waahtoffton, D. C. Charlotte. M. C. Norfolk, Va. Charlaaton, W. V. mchniond, Va. Charteeian, *. C, 5 mb' ? j, ; THE CAMDEN FUEL COMPANY Beg to remind iU friend* and Utc^tSblic that it U still in the COAL and WOOD btuincM despite rumors to. tha contrary. It handles high-class fuel at lowest prices. Orders appreciated and fives prompt and courteous at tention. I. J. McKENZIE, Manager