Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE n. I). NUec ?ml _ V' > PnblUher*. .. B. N. Mclkwott..... > Published every Friday at 1109 No. Broad Street, mid entered at the Cam den postofttce ax second clan# malt mat ter. l'rlcc per annum $1.50. We are ?lad to receive cowinunloa iIoiim of a reasonable length, t>ut an lm|M>rtaiit condition of their publica tion tx that they shall In all canes l>e accompli ulcd hy the full name ami exact ml.in- , of the sender. obitu aries, resolutions of respect, and church notices will not be charged for. Mat tern of purely a personal nature will be barged for at the rate of five cents a line. Whin key or patent medicine advertisements will not be accapted at any price. Hates for display adver tising made known on application. (aindcii, S. July -M. 15) 17. Ail exchange says thut the only way tti si op the loss of hair Is to get a divorce. "Love thy neighbor as thyself"?un less he hap|KMis to he in sympathy with tlie Kaiser. Some of our young men who were <1 rafted have suddenly discovered tljat they are suffering from some incurable complaint. '.Clothes do not1 make the man," hut .1 uniform and Uncle Sam's . officers will certainly improve some young men that we know. The fact that women are wearing red. white and hlue hathing suits is not likely to cause av shortage in the supply of hunting. One yard will make several suit*. "The saddest words of tongue or pen That inen*ley quart is out, iigijin. ?I.n nca tlWt# ,New:. ? Sadder these, to us were sjMikeii, "Sorrv. Ho. your ipiart got broken We are living in hopes of some day seeing girl who really looks like those mi the summer magazine cov er*." Lancaster News.? If Hell will <-iune over here for a few days, we'll show him ope. dated that Pershing'* men were enjoying some good French whiskey. Possibly, if the announcement had come a little sjmui er. recruiting Viflicers in I lie "hone dry" stations would have been kept busier. "Let there be no hatred of the <?er juan |K'ople. let there be no song of hate." says an eminent e\|Hiunder of the i t < h id I took. To which , a Contem porary says: "Well, after we cave in their libs and knock their slat* ??ff we'll accept their apologies and treat them neighborly." If Thomas Wllhehn Hardwick *till retains any shreds of his political epi rermis after the eilielent Maying oper at ions of the Georgia press, (as well a* diver* and sundry outspoken individ nal* throughout the state I he must have fo take out a search warrant to di>eover them.?Amerlcus. (Ja. Times 1 teci irder. Who weeps with you when you arc sad. and laughs when you are glad, and *mites with .you when you are mad ? the editor. Who has to lie botti kind and wise and never (hardly ? veri lie*. and when he does creates -urpri-e the editor. Who owns a heart i\cl! a* cheek, possessed of spirit proud but meek. and lives on forty cents a wit'k?the editor.?GafF nev Ledger. Notwithstanding the fact that The Chronicle announced that an extra ?*di t><>ii of this p:ii>er would appear today and Inviting the merchants to take ad vantage* of Its advertising column*, not one applied for space. And >tlll we are often asked why we do not publish a semi-weekly pa|ier. Many people want, to know why so much trading is done in nearby towns. The answer is mer chants in other towns advertise. Premier Lloyd George seems to have analyzed the speech of Michaeli* with calm deliberation. He gives Germany to understand that Great Britain will not be put out of the tight "until full liberty has been established." and he Intimates that the country may soon exjiect another gpeeeh' from the Chancellor of a different kind, "and that is the kind for whb*i Great Brit ain has l>een waiting." No more mon f". - . . ? ;v tjvv umeutal Muff Iium ever beeu under i)ik.u man not m wtiiiWir^ Maehaells' speech in (lit* Kelchstag.-r Charlotte Oluwrvtr, & ' ?" ? ~ ? ? ( mum* for CoiiKmtulatkMi. The l?ww "Mr. Htubpeti, when you cumr lit this morning 1 detected a trftiv ??f li?|ii<?r aln?ut your person." The Iiooltkwjier-?,*Tlu?l,w tine, sir! Thai show* how much better your ciilil Is *lr."~ Wrw'* WritiniCH. SI NDAVH WAR SI MM AH Y |{UH?iiiiiw'(totting Heavy Blown Hy K? ^ 'b?forr**d Austrian Apny. v ? _ A The FrciieH uit?l Russian front* wii 11iiiic (lit* scenes of the grcatesl liilli lary activity. In France, in ihe region l>otweeu SoIhhoiim and Rhelmx. the French hiivo again given an exhibition ??f their tenacious ability, at defence, like that whlt'h held the lieruiHli* ba<*k front Verdun. The Russian line in Gallcla appar ently Is crumbling by reason of the dlsaffcction uf some of thu troops and the vicliuiH assault the Germans ami Aust ro-l lungarlans, cHi>eclally the <Jer iiuins, are throwing agttiimt It. Notwithstanding the heavy lnanea the Uermau.s had thus far sustained in their attack along the Cheuilii-dea* i Mimes in France they again made fruitless effort* Sunday to defeat (Jen. 1'etain's force*, delivering at various l??lnts attacks with largo effectives among whom were frenh reinforce incuts. From lOpne de Chevregny to the south of Corbeny, approximately. l'J miles, the artillery of the crown prince pounded the French positions mercilessly in the early morning after which the leash was slipjMMl from the infantry, which attacked on several sectors only to meet with a galling lire from the Frenlh riflles ami ma chine guns. Often the opposing troops came into hand to hand encounters. Several times the Germans reached the Casemates plateau, but each time were driven back suffering enormous casualties. Only one ]>olnt.. on the Callfornie plateau, were they able to gain a footing and here the position is still in dispute in a stubborn buttle for supremacy. With the continued forward press ? if the Germans In the region of Zlo ehoir. Galicia, the Russian line on the front south of ltrezany is beginning to give way, according to the latest German official communication. The Sereth brldgehold. near Tarnopal has been reacheil by the Germans and at several jtoints the railway running from Tarnopol to Kozowa has been taken. The Russians in their retreat have set on lire the town of Tarnoj>ol and village*} to the east. Should the Russian line immediately south of lire/any give way, it i* probable that the Russians will be forced to retreat from the region of Halloa. M. Kerensky, the Russian premier, who personally commanded the Rus sian forces when they started their odVnsive in Galicin early In July, again has gone to tlw fighting front, proba bly in an effort to put down the dis affection among the troops. Again a large force of German air planes has visited the east English eoa*t dropping bombs. Fleveit persons were killed and L'd injured. District Boards Named. The district exemptIon hoards for S.>uih Carolina. as announced in Wash ington. a ft-: Has tern lit s trict?Wilhiin . (lUilfrey of Choraw. 111 ml km* ma nnfactnrer ami 111<? 1111 ?<? r <>f the State council of de fence ; R. Jeffords of 1 >arlTngton, trackmastcr of the Atlantic Coast Line railway ; Robert .J. Scarborough of l<\>n\vay. former congressman and mem ber of the board of regents of the State hospital for the insane; W. A. Stuckey, of Rishopvllle, fanner and hanker: Dr. Robert Wilson of Charles ton. president of the Medical College of South Carolina. Western District?Marlon J. Davis, of Newberry, *u|>eriiitendcnt of a New Perry cotton mill : J. W. Gaston, farm er of Spartanburg: Dr. E. A. I linos of Senaea. see ret ary of the South Car olina Medical association: J. K. Mc Donald of Winnsboro, lawyer; A. Fos ter McKissick, of Greenwood. cotton manufacturer. His Five Sons Were Drawn. Durham,. July 21.?Five of the -ix sons of C. C. White, prominent Dur ham tobacco man, were drawn in yes terday's draft lottery ami probably none of the live will claim exemption, it was said here today. Mr*. George Quinard Hirwitz. a well known Philadelphia society wo man. i* the sole nominee for mayor of Moorehaven, a thriving town in the Florida everglades, the city charter for which grants suffrage to women. The heaviest rainfall in Knoxville, Tenn., in twenty-eight years, this week lias done hundreds of thousands of dollar? dwnage. Mocked ^railroad traf fic, flooded 100 homes, many mills, factories and business houars and fm j>ede<l ear traffic. SI VM HAN OKCI.ABKO WAK Asiatic Country Kilters l int Of Km niie* of (irniiauy. ftamlou. July Hlaui has do el tired tinti a *talv of >vtlr exist* ^vltl? (iermany ami Austria, according to * Uenter dUpuich from Itangkok. Nine ^tamers, aggregating 10,(>00 tons have (X't'll seised. The object of Slam's declaration I* I.. "uphold the sanctity of iuternutloii al right* against nations showing con tfinpt for the principle* of humanity ami riauiect for small states." All (JcMtuans ami Austrian*, the (lis patch adda. have tieen placed under ar vest anil their business closed. Slam "the land of the free" a klng (Itiin of southeastern Asia, has a imp utation variously estimated at be tween 5,000,000 and 10,000,000; it is probably something more than 8. IKKMHM). Universal* liability to military service on the European model now Ih In force in all of the provlnles, in eluding Bangkok. Ti?e peao0 strength jff the army is about 12.0(H) meii, while the navy consists nominally of tweii ty*one Vessels, all of small size, in peace, there iue 5,(KM) men available for service afloat besides a reserve of *>,000. In the nineteenth century, regular diplomatic relations, were established vlth the United States and the Euro |H'iin nations. SENSATIONAL TRIPLE TBAtiEUY Wealthy Coal Operator and Ills Wife And Son Killed. Johnstown, Pa? July 15.?Edward Humphries, a prominent coal opera tor and mine sui>erintendent, former ly of Philadelphia, his wife and son, Edward Humphries, Jr., were shot to death on a country road near here today. The Humphries family was part of an automobile party with George (\ Tompkins, Jr., of Philadel phia. Tompkins took the bodies of Mrs. Humphries and the son to Cur rolltown near here, and told the of liters that the party was held up by masked men. The murder occurred oii a main road. The party had left Carroltown where Humphries and Tompkins wore interested in a coal company organ ized six weeks ago with Tompkins as treasurer. According to the stury told by Tompkins to authorities at Carrolltown, three masked men step ped suddenly from a grain flehl along the road and pointed revolvers at the party. Mrs. Humphries, according to Tompkins, stepped screaming from the automobile and was shot by one of the met). The elder Humphries leap ed from the car and started to run. Seeing that the men were not pur suing him, Humphries returned and placed the body of his wife in the automobile. The highwaymen then began tiring again. Tompkins until that time had remained crouched in the tonneau of the machine. The next time he looked up. ho stiid. he saw Humphries running with one of the men pursuing him. All the shots were tired, according to Tompkins from a distance of seventy feet. Miners passing near the ueene of the shooting heard tlie shots and sounded an alarm. Searching parties and posses were sent out from Car rolltown. The body of the elder Humphries was found in a Held sev eral hundred yards from the car. The body of the son was found near the a utomohlle. The searchers declare that they found no trace of bandits. Tompkins first related his story of the atatck to I)r. E. F. Arble. of Car roll town, a cousin of Humphries, and connected with Humphries and Tompkins In the <x>al company. Sheriff W. E. Mulhollcr and county detectives after hearing tin; version of the attack ;iw tohLhy Tompkins, which they declare to contain conflicting statements, abandoned the search for the alleged highwaymen. The bodies were examined by Coroner Fitzgerald and it is said it. was found that the shots had been tired from behind and at dose range, contrary to Tompkins' statements. The coroner ordered an inquest to bo hold at once and the jury ordered that Tompkins bo bold jis a witness. He was committed to the county jail at Edensburg. Says He ..Killed All Three. .Johnsotn. vPa., .T?il.v lf>.?Although according to authorities. (leorgo 0. Tompkins, of Philadelphia, today con fessed that he murdered his business associate, Edmund I. Humphries, Phil adelphia operator, Mrs. Humphries and their son, Edmund, Jr., on a country road near Carrollton last Sunday, there is still much mystery as to the motive for the triple shooting. At the request of Tompkln's coun sel it is understood Warden Knee, of the Citmbra County jail at Ebenshurg, where the man is confined, will per sonalv conduct the investigation, which ended today with Tompkins' alleged voluntary confession, stated several days aero a motive for the murders had lMM?n discovered, but they refuse to dvsflose this information. Neither has it been said whether Tompkins In his confession assigned a cause for the crime. "I killed those three jx'ople?I killed them all. I killed Humphries In the cornfield. I l>ought the pun in Johns town,were Tompkln's words of con fession, it is said. A movement is on foot among Rock Hill p?H*?le to hnild a large power plant on the Catawba river. N -IN YOtK BOV (H)IN?r | . 111 "" Hqw The (fundion Brought IHmn The Barrier. 5'" <> r ? V.- ' ?r vrvU "iMose to me live* ? mail whose In terest* h?vt? been separated from mine l?y more than h more Ivy-grown stone fence?'to We exact, by several humired tliou*ands dollar*. The other (lay he leaned over the fence ami inquired: " 'I* your hoy going?' , ?? 'Yes,' " 'Mine too. 1 lad a notion ho didn't want to wait for conscription, lly the wa.v, those eggplants of yours are not I coming on very well. May I send my mail over with some fertilizer that ha* heljied fairs " "The fence ls^ still there?hut not the harrier. Our hoys and our coun try leveled It. "There's hound to he a lot of.such leveling from thin time on. Some of us who have lieen too busy to net ac quainted are going t?? lyiow each oth i ci'. Xuiuti who have ltm>n too absorb ed by inonoy-iuakliig and reputatlon sceklug to make friends will suddenly feel the need of comradeship. Some of us who have worried because our neighbors dressed letter than we did, had a finer phonograph, or ran a faster car are going to have our eyes o|>cncd to the falseness of the standards by which we have judged ourselves and each other. We're going to like each other a great deal better and to need occh other a great deal more."?Home Companion. Union County Came First. It was not a mere accident that Union County eaiue out with the dis tinction of having more than her quota of soldiers, thus escaping the neces sity of having a single man conscript ed. It is something of which we may feel Justly proud. Not another county In the State, and so far as we know, not another one in the other States made a like showing. Hut it was not accidental. Among the causes that led to this high dis tinction may he mentioned the follow ing: The work of Macbeth Young, coun ty chairman, was splendidly executed, and one feature emphasized by him before the day for enrolling was his insistent advice to young men to en list before the day of enrollment. The Johnson Rifles, Co. E., long be fore there was any thought of war with European jiowers, was a well organized and efficient company. Un der the leadership of Capt. J. Frost Walker. Jr., and his fellow officers, there has always been a striking em phasis upon the need for trained sol diers. The U. I}. C. work and that of the T>. A. It's contributed much to the final happy conclusion. These or ganizations are doing and have for years l>een doing a most excellent work in keeping the fires of patriotism burn ing in Union County. Throughout the entire county the ministers of the various denomina tions and the leaders in the various benevolent orders have emphasized the need for patriotic service. Last, but not least. Union's news papers have, in season and out of sea son held before the citizenship of the county the necessity of patriotic ser vice. In conclusion, it must not be for gotten that the manhood of this coun ty Inherited from the fathers a record for bravery, unselfish service and high ambition not often equalled, never eclipsed by any other county. Un ion County lias h way of beinj; first when It comes to service for the coun try's good. It is a >;rand achievement, a nota ble one that Union furnished her full quota and then some.?Union Times. THE FIRST LINOTYPE. Short History of Machine That Keeps The World informed. The lirst machine from which lino type bars <?r slugs were east has lately Ikhmi deiiosited in the division of graphic arts of the United States National Museum, and is located in the Smithsonian building. This ]>ar tleular idea, the invention of Mergen thaler, revolutionized printing; it was the lirst machine to cast a complete line of type ready to print' from. Previous to the adoption of the im proved machine, now used so exten sively, many men were needed in the composing rooms, for on a modern example of this remarkable machine a competent operator can set four times as much copy as by hafid. Composition and distribution by hand are both tedious and expensive, thus the new machine saved the printers both time and money. Every big-town daily newspaper in the country em ploys from fifteen t o thirty-five of these machines, and every daily uses one or two, so that there must be about 24,000 used in the daily news-, paper ofiices in the United States and Canada alone. It was estimated in 1808 that there were no more than 0,000 machines in existence. This shows the present increased number used in the daily newspaper offices, but it does not show the whole de mand. If the 24,868 publication houses listed In the current newspaper an nual for the United Suites and Canada, each uses no more than five machines the total would l>e over 120,000, twen ty times as many as existed only eight een years ago. There are three machines exhibited in the Smithsonian hails, which are closely related to the development of this contribution to the art of prints ing. Two of them are early models, which idented stripe of papier mache (matrices) from which sterotype casts were made. Some of these earlier ma you NEED YOUR EYES NOW AS NEVER BEFORE J Strenous times are crowding upon us. Your ejJ are the steering wheels o f your brain and body, a J you cannot afford to neglect any means of preservi^ WEI.I* ADJUSTED GLASSES Will equip your eyes for the task before them. 0^ Masses are scientifically ground to meet and remedy all eye defects- See us at once and put your eye^ perfect woring condition. You'll need them as ne^ before. i G. t Jeweler and Optician -Camdle*, S. chintz consisted of a cylinder which held the type faces and the mechan ism to bring it Into po?ition to in dent the paper. All of which was controlled'' by the pressing of a key. This style, called a rotary impression Machine, was built mainly by the late Ottmar Mergenthaler in 1877-1878 an tler the auspices of J. O. Ulephane, who later organized the Nutional Ty pographic Company. The second, called a tereotyper, wOrked well, but the casting of the slugs was found to l>e unsatisfactory, and Mr. Mergenthaler undertook the inven tion of the machine to do all the. work. He started work with L. G. Hine early In 1883, making a small experimental machine, which printed hut twelve letter** at a time, but dem onstrated the fact that a full-sized ma chine built on this prlnciplo would he an enormous step in advance. This Was accomplished when the large machine was built?the third of the series exhibited in the Smithsonian building?which was the first ma chine from which linotype bars, or slugs were cast. On the printing j face the characters formed a com : plete and solid line of type, similar i to n line of individual type soldered together, and they were ready for use; j a number of lines making up a col ! limn or page?Just like the individual 1 lines of thte article. The matrices or dies for the different letters, used in tbis first machine, were on long tapered bars, arranged side by side vertically, each contain ing a complete alphabet, oilier j characters and spaces. The operation j of the keys in _ the keyboard set a ! number of stow, one for each letter j depressed, and when the whole line had been set, the entire line of matrix bars was lowered until the different spective stops, which ?cere at various ! heights, so that at a \?rtaln point the characters on the matrix b&rs formed Ja line of reading matter. There was no automatic Justification, or spacing to make the line the exact length requrled, but it was left to the opera tor who struck the space key and tilled it with thick or thin spaces on the tapering matrix bars. TtJ of matrix bars was then clmpj gether, a maid was Interpol twoe? the matrices ami a pot ofn? metal, which moved up to the 2 the mold, and the LtnotypMroj east. The line was then undari the matrices automatically r?hj their normal positions, an<J iSj operations for casting the afljfl were performed. Describing Initial test of this Linotype nudj Ottmar Mergenthaler and tbe Hi of the Linotype, the author eq that the spectators gathered at aliop on Bank Lane in Baltimore, before the Inventor was read*,] had to wait until he made km*: Justments. "Finally everything a ed to be ready ? * * Mr. Mergotij called for the steam power to tt tached; he * * composed a II*, moved the stopper fro m the | pump, and touched tbe line Smoothly and silently the mat sMd into their places, were da and aligned, the pump dischus contents, a finished Wnotype, ill like silver, dropped from tbe and the matrices returned agaii their normal positions. All Ui|f| the work of but 15 second*." I This machine was never usedq merlcally, but It dast a nmnbtfl 'slugs, and articles were eet this machine from which prints taken. When it was. completed National Typographic Company, high hopes that it wiuld be i! tical machine, buti a number 0/ feets developd and it prorqij slow. The scheme was flnartyj doned in favor of a gingle nut that is, a short bar with one <1 ter stamped upon it, such as 1j today?instead of a long bar trlfl whole alphabet. The application the patent of this machine.wM August 30, 1884, but was not pi until March 3, 1885. In the d of graphic arts in the Smiths building, there^are many btlw* terestlng series showing the ow ment of instruments and machlM lattng to the art of printing DM Ing wild hnokmaklng: Man's .. ;*?'? T \ * *? it controlled?man's most useful servant If uncontrolled?his most destructive foe. k ?/* . ? ,Itr+it.trfittf> v" If your property is not absolutely fire proof it (j be the next to *0 up in flames. If it goes, will your brightest hopes go with Afire insurance policy kindles fresh hope, beO"^ it giver you thft ability to "come tack." 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