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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE H. I). Nllea Mid ( > Publlahera. K. N. McDewelL. \ Published every Friday m( 1HH) No. Hroad Street, and entered at the ('am dvii poMtotllc?? an second class mall mat tor. Price per annum $1.50, We are glad to receive communica tions of a reasonable length, but an !ii11?ortiint condition of their puhllca don Is that they shall In all eases he Hccoinpanled by the full name and exact address of the sender. Obitu aries, resolutions of respect, and church notices will not be charged for Mat ters of purely u personal nature will be charged for at the rate of live cent* a line. Whiskey or patent medicine advertisement!* will n<?t be accepted nt any price. ltatea for display adver ttnlng made known on annllcation Camden, S. C., Mareh HO, 1917. KKKI) VOI'KHKIJK. ( Froi/i Country (h*ntleiunu > , Klslnu costs (?r fo<n|. tufTs make a bin wprinjf drain on ttio roHOUurcet. ??f the AvcrtiKO household. The kee|(cr of I ho family pur;*' doesn't lyed to la* told that farm prices In January averaged more than fifty i>er <N-nt tilRlicr than1 In th?? pa.-t nine years. Frlciu to con-! winners have been ?? v??n higher, due to delayed tran.??i>ortatlon. The consumer fries boycott^ or tnrnr. to the (Jovern ment for relief. Invi'Htlratlon.i and new laws arc advocated, hut results conn' slowly In th??se channels and a J more reliable remedy is needed ?one more nearly within the control of the Individual. For thousands of families the answer lies In this home garden. Fven on; farms the Importance of tin* garden., ICven on farms the lmi>ortance of the; garden, con pled with Rood canning and ' proHorvinn, is not fully appreciated. The self-supporting farm table Is still, too rarely found. The farm pantry; that cannot furnish plenty of fruits and > vegetables to supply the table with a , variety of dishes throughout the win j ter Is an evidence of .shortsighted man- j a gemenf. Many city and suburban fa ml lien can j also find In the garden protection from . excessive food prli*?s. They may riot <rwn desirable garden land, but every j town or elty Is surrounded by thous ands of acres of vacant land that may j fie utilized. The vacant-lot garden has been promoted with surprising results in Home places, and the idea needs to be spread "broadcast. This is a perfectly legitimate work for chambers ? ?f commerce, boards of trade, city gar-? den clubs, ev?;n city eouncils. Owners of vacant land should he urq- ' ed to offer it for garden purposes. I'nlfortn rules must be made t<> safe-' guard Individual rights, to protect grow ing crops and to compel the gardeners to leave the land in as neat and clean condition as it was found. The news papers can help by printing local gar den plans ami advice by successful gar deners, and by developing u local sen timent Uiat will foster the idea. Our Fvcry man's i.'nrden is not mere !y a striking title. It represents ..nr ?onvietion that even family flint can in any way arrange it should have its own source of fruits and vegetables, fo be j (reserved for the winter in the pantry. Such a garden may begin wltli the staples and develop the delicacies :is the gardener arrows in skill m 11 ? 1 experience. "Feed yourself" is good farm econ omy am! a first principle for ;t family is well .is for a nation. Senator .1 K Vnnlaman of Mississ ippi, one of the twelve senators who ' i 111 ? u s t?I a ua i n s t tjie armed?neu tralify t?iIi, has i.s.siicd signed *tate ment in which lie promises that if impress should vt?fe to declare war on ?Jermany he would "vote to gi\e the ((resident men and money to the ast -? <'Til and dwindling farthing inv essjirv to uphold my country's cause" I'btn.s have lus>n completed fur a ?lew dornrt ? r\ building at the South Carolina Industrial .school at Florence. The proposed new building is t.) pro vide room at the .school f.,r si boys and will cost approximately $10,000. Major < Jetieral Wood is exjHvteii to move his headipiarter*. to (Charleston at omv APRIL ..PAYMENT.. For The Camden Building & Loan Association will be due Mon., April 2nd, payable at the Loan & Sav ings Bank JOHN S. LINDSAY, Sec'ty. HK.VS.VHON8 IN KATTLK Described !iy l4miN K. Krmiuui in A|?ril Popular Mechanics, * It was rrci'iitly my privilege to *???', in a *sln;;ie jierlod of .'iU hours,'all the stages through which a wounded sol rller of the Hritlsh army pusses from the time he Is hrouuht hack lo tin* most advanced dresstiij* station on the Homme until he is put aboard tin* hos pital steamer for ICntfland or sent to u convalescent depot to recu|>erato his strength in l-Ynrice. I Miring this short time I saw several thousand wounded men with Injuries all the way from two hours' old to as many week . --and the one thin# that Impressed nie most (asldo, of course, t'i??/ii their magnlfl font iDur.mc and fortitude) was the apparent absence among them "f p<>ig nant i liv.slral suffering One or tin* most painfully wounded ntt'ii I saw was alno one of the most slightly wounded. A (lorman shell penetrating deep Into tin* noft earth before exploding I11"' driven him- un scathed h.v tho explosion 11f. straight through a ImtImmI who entanglement. Faring bolter In one respcct than tin* man who Jumped Into th<' bramble bmu In the nursery rhyme, In; did iu>t "scratch out both hi* eyes." Protect ? hI, as they were, by a rather beetling brow. those escajH'd Injury; and they wen1 about the only part of his un fortunate anatomy that did escajH*. While there wan not a ?'Ut on hlin over half an Inch deep. neither were there more than a few Inches of cuticle at any plaee on his body that had la-en spared t>y the cruel barbs. Some of the furrows on tils back and logs were over two feet long. "He brought up like a snared par tridge." said one of the doctors who attended him, "In a tangle of the wire, and they had to cut him away before he could be taken out. Although the cuts were not deep, the germ laden earth of the Sonune was so thoroughly rub bed into them that only re|>ented In Jeetlons of antitoxin saved him from i blood poisonng. 1 have never known H human body to 'neutralize' so much antitoxin. During the first two weeks he was here he was constantly In | greater pain than any one of the | many hundreds of far worse wounded | men that passed through our hands In j that time. One cannot talk long with a Tom- j my on the Somme without hearing j some weird tale or another of what j he has seen hapjH'ii to one of his comrades as a result of shell explosions | in the trenches. For obvious reasons ! these tales are almost Invariably told j about some one else; in fact, the one j lirst-hand recital of such an accident j that I heard was a far less illumina tive account of what hapi>ened than might well have been told by one of the chief actor's comrades. 1 talked with the man in a hospital where he i had boon for a mouth recovering from crushed jtolvic bones and internal in- i juries caused by impact with the limb, ?JO feet from the ground of a tree against which he had boon thrown by a (ieiinan shell exploding in his trench. "1 was sitting on a sandbag." he said, "when the blighter that done the business p|um|>ed right into the hot- 1 toin of the trench and buried itself deep in I lie mud before exploding. 1'p tlew me and sandbag together, and the i tlrst thing 1 knew was a 'ell of a crack a>-ro-s the 'Ips. and there 1 was 'ang ill:.' ill t he bloottl i U g tree like l.'C t week's wash. l>idn't "nve to 'ang on a all. It Ju-t plastered me nand the 1 im' like a piece/of soft meat. 1 couldn't climb down, and as they 'ad no ladders, there was nothing to ? 1?> but for one of the boys to -.bin up and let tlie remains, -of?hh*?rlirtt-ti at" t*rn end of~"7T TTife. ? 'otirse if 'tirr like 'e!l, getting rue' down: but I'm -lire I didn't go "fT . in a faint at that stage of the - how. cause I can remember cursing, with the, ilttle breath I 'ad left, ? oinc bloke 'on ad mooched along and wits trying to -nap un* with a bit of a catnr'y 'e'd smuggled up to the trencho?;. Camrys in the trenches are strictly forbid, and >on can Jolly well believe 1 told Im wot 1 thought of 'itii f.-r "aving it " Negroes in New York. The migration of 150,000 negroes to New York since the beginning of the war abroad has brought a problem. The Commissioner of ('harltles, Mr. Doherty. Is authority for the num- ; U?r of thex' immigrants and for some details of the problem which they create. lie recently pointed out, ' these |wople came hen- ns workers, lured t>y high wages and the eases with which employment could be. Tound. They have learned that ox penses as well as wages run high , hen', while certain hardships unknown ] In the South must be accepted! Hons- j lng for these people Is scarce and' sometimes wretched. As for money, j there an' so many more Inducements to ; spend It hero that the earner is tempt-j ?sl to curtail comforts. Even in good times like tho present j t hex> new arrivals from tho sunny; South are frequently within a stone-, throw of booming dependent on out-1 side aid Should aporlod of severe economic stress come on tho heol.s of , the present prosperity the now float- j lng jK)pulatlon would be hard to keep , afloat. At present ami for somo time1 to come Southern fields must suffer for the lack of the hands drawn away from the section. Most of the 150,000 j would in the long run be better off and more useful in the part* they have forsaken. That most of them 1 should return thither after a taste of i sophistication In clothes, food and sur- ' roundings is doubtful. The tendency of the Southern negro 1 population, left to its own derices, is thus to spread its surplus along the' Northern Atlantic soahoanl which may eventually as a result hare Its own color problem?New York Son. KcjoUIng of the Jewa. It is to Lm' noted that wider the new dhjsMisatlon in Husrtla (ho Jewn iiw lo he given ahout tlt?> same dogrqyof freedom that an American enjoys in i tlu? i:i?lt?ul Statu*. With this fact III! hi 11mI( o|ie ciiii understand Mil* Joy niuli-1 ! ifCHte<J Iiy till' l>lHt Side Jews in New I j York. When uew:i ?>f what had hap- i j pened in Hussia was involved in the I Jewish section of tin* big city, the men ? kissed each other and shook iiands, while the women danced ami went for Joy, and the whole erowd sang the "Murselliiise." in a Jewish theater the word was given out, and the whole crowd rushed Into the streets to Join In (he rejoicing. leaving the theater I entirely deserted. The Jewish news ImIm? r proclaimed it as the happiest i news --"the only really happy nova humanity has had In the course of ! the last two years." The revolution in Hussia I i taken hy these New York ?Jews to mean an early ending of the war. while some of them predict a similar uprising in (iermany..?Char lot to Observer. Hand Writing ou the Wall. As a matter of fact, a man acqualut ed with political conditions in South Carolina, regardless of what candi date .ho may i>ersonnUy favor, knows right now who will he the next United States senator and who will he the next governor. If ii. K. Tillman chooses to offer for reelection then the aged senator will go hack to Washington, hut If he doe.s not care to nerve another term, Ashury F. j I.ever, at present congressman from this State, will he elected senator, and Robert A. Cooper of I^iurens, de feated in the last primary for gov- j eiiior, will Ik nominated hy an over whelming vote. We do not pledge our support to any one of the three candi dates we have mentioned and we know that we would not support one of the three, hut common sense says that the way we have written It is the way it will he.? Lancaster News. The Coming Battle. While claims from Berlin are fro quently to he taken with a grain of salt, recent German statements to the! effect that the British and French' armies oj>erating on the Wsetern front will have their tasks set out for them within the next few weeks, ?n-1 well worth consideration. It appear* at the present time that the allies in : Frat i- are rapidly approaching the lines <?f Von Illndenberg and that the big battle of the war will Ih? fought when the meeting takes place. It will he recalled that this is the same Hindenherg who conducted a strate . gical retreat from Warsaw in the early stages of tlx1 war, *and then turned to neatly entrap the Russian-. It will he remembered, too, that the, Germans employed t h?? same tactics in Galida Inst year, when they feil ? back before the supposedly victorious Russian, Brussiloflf to new and thor-' oughly pre pa iv? I positions. Yet we scarcely believe that the present re-j treat of the Germans in France is a matter of choice; It has every appear ance >>f being a jjennanent move. The fact that the German forces are poisoning the well* as they go cer tainly indicates that they do not ex IH?ct to come back. Hut (ierman strat egy i> of the deepest character. It is quite possible that by selected re tirement the (Germans hope to break up and knock away the carefully laid plans of the allies for their big "drive." While we have but little knowledge .?f the battleground as it lie*, we may assume that the British and French armies had planted their heavy guns for spring operations on an extensive scale, and the speed with which the German* arc now retiring on the West ern front should make it practically impossible to follow at the same s[?eed with artillery of the monster tyIk?. Naturally, too, the German movement should a fleet the range of the>e guns, which cannot be moved as an army moves when it makes a retreat in quick* step time. So we may look for a certain change of tactics on the part of Von Ilinden* berg. But one thing is certain : when ever he elects to halt and give bat tle to his pursuers he will find a gen uine surprise awaiting him in the new man |K>wer of Great Britain and France. He will also tind something new in the way of .stored munitions.? Ashevllle Citizen. J. B. Maddox has l>een arrested at Greenwood charged with enticing negro labor to northern points. Much feel ing is aroused among employers, who claim that several hundred negroes left during the past few months. After tive weeks en route, the body of Noah McAllster, of Pelzer, who died in the Philippine Islands live weeks ago was burled at Pelzer Metho dist Church Tuesday. Mr. McAllster, who is of a prominent family who lives about eight miles from Pelzer, Joined the United States navy some time ago and was In the Philippine Islands at the time of his death. The family were immediately notified and they asked that the body be shipped for burlaL Accordingly the body was shipped from the Philippines across the Pacific to this country and then across this coun try to Pelzer. A dispatch from Orangeburg says that the furmers of Orangeburg coun ty will thl* year plant from 6,000 to 8,000 acres in velvet beans. Over l.'JOO bales of cotton were sold In Sumter at 19 cents a pound fiat, bringing a total of about $60,000. R. Berekely Bryan vice president of of the R. I>. Bryan Company, of Colum bia, died Monday night. Lieut Cooper of Charlecton states that the Navy wants 1,000 volunteers from Sonth Carolina. Twenty-one Columbia doctors have stated they are willing to nerve In the event of war Kershaw County ARE DEEPLY IN EARNEST AS NEVER BEFORE, WE BELIEVE, ABOUT Thi? ALL-IMPQRTANT QUESTION OF RAISING OUR OWN FOOD AND FEED AT HOME. WE ARE LIVING IN A YEAR OF RAPID CHANGES AND NEW CONDI TIONS THAT ARE CALLING FOR DEEP THOUGHT AND WISE COUNCIL FOR EVERY MAN TO WORK OUT HIS OWN SALVATION. PRICES OF FOODS ARE ALREADY AT A POINT NEVER SEEN IN THIS GENERATION, AND NOW WITH THE UNITED STATES A PARTY IN THE GREAT WORLD WAR NO MAN KNOWS THE FOOD CONDITIONS AND FOOD PRICES THAT AWAIT US FOR ANOTHER WINTER. REALLY NOW, HAVE YOU EVER GIVEN IT THE THOUGHT, ATTEN. TION, AND CARE THAT YOU KNOW IT SHOULD HAVE? HAVEN'T YOU GENERALLY LEFT IT TO THE WIFE AND CHILDREN TO LOOK AFTER? YES IT'S ALL RIGHT POSSIBLY TILL ABOUT JULY 1ST, AFTER WHICH IT GROWS THE FINEST GRASS ON THAT PLACE. THE WISE FARMER IN KERSHAW THIS YEAR WILL MAKE HIS GARDEN FURNISH HIS TABLE WITH FRESH VEGETABLES ALL SUMMER AND CAN NED VEGETABLES NEXT WINTER. Would You Be Independent of Those Conditions? Then Now is the Time to Get Ready * How About Your Garden? THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS HAVE GONE OUT OF KERSHAW COUNTY THIS WINTER FOR IRIST POTATOES, TOMATOES, BEANS, ONIONS, TURN IPS, CABBAGE, CANNED CORN, ETC., ALL OF WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN KEPT HERE IF OUR GARDENS HAD RECEIVED PROPER CARE AND ATTEN TION. WILL THIS BE REPEATED NEXT WINTER? IT WILL LIKELY TAKE MORE COTTON MONEY TO BUY THEM NEXT WINTER THAN IT DID THIS. THE FOLLOWING FIGURES FURNISHED BY COMMISSIONER OF AGRI CULTURE SHOW WHAT THE PEOPLE OF THIS STATE SPENT LAST YEAR FOR FOODSTUFFS WHICH COULD EASILY BE PRODUCED ON THE FARMS OF KERSHAW COUNTY. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF A FEW ITEMS IN THE FOLLOWING LIST, IF WE BEGIN NOW, WE CAN HAVE ALL OF THESE AR TICLES FOR THIS YEARS USE: Bacon $10,761,891 Hay 2,362,000 Fliur 10,802,756 Lard 8,302,125 Corn Meal 10,165,700 Cheese , 2,014.000 Beef 9,100,000 Eggs 612,000 Canned Goods 13,898,600 Cabbage 506,000 Butter r? 6,565,000 Potatoes 456,000 Milk 1,168,000 Turunips 226,000 Mulues and horses .. 10,000,000 Onions 250,000 Com 6,136,000 Seeds 200,000 Commercial feed Candies * 150,000 stuffs 1,929,416 Oats 3,162,000 Total ... $98,767,488 SET YOUR OWN TABLES, FILL OUR OWN BARNS?THEN ALL THE COT TON WE CAN RAISE. ASK CLEMSON COLLEGE AND THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR BULLETINS ON GARDEN WORK. Depend On Us to Help Any Way We Can. Bank of Camden Bank of Bethune First National Bank Loan & Savings Bank