Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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KoTtheir walrus feast Homo* Have 8olld Repast When On# V 9t These Blfl Creature# Hm ? Been T?ken. tin* Smith Hound tribe of Ktberiuuuxt dreenland the favorite K Is walrus (OMti *uys Fltzhugh ? , n |n popular Mechanics Muguzlue. R, ? 000 of those* animals ha* ? harpooned nod, after a struggle, Ki.-iiiin^ lust ink' many hours, is fln ?iv dispatched. Ma 2,000-pound car ?a* is towed to the lee edtfa and Kultnl out for butchery. ?Shoulders. flippers, and sectlous of He trunk are burled uuder a pile of ?cm-* to guard agalust the depreda ?on* of thieving foxes. tCntralls aro Ked out and fed to the famished Solves which form North Greenland ?og teams. ? Follows then the feast. For entree I segment of the outer flipper has ?eeo wved, a little gtrlngy as a rule, ?ttt ot a peculiar rancid flavor exceed ?Tgiv tasty to the naTTve "palate. ? XhP creature's stomach may con Kiii several gallon^ of clams. . One rip K* knife and the yellow lumpy broth Bams out over the snow to the lua Ease delight of the hunters. Instant* K?ll turn to and swallow great mushy ?andfuls of tne repulsive, half-digested Kef*. ? By this time the pot Is on and some ?hick lumps of meat and fat from near ?he backbone are boiling with frag Emt (to the Bsklmo). odors. Much beat has already been devoured raw my those too hungry to wait. I Men are almost full. Sleeping skins lire spread. Tales begin In sleepy, ironing tones. "Brother, a bit of mum tiuk to-auaQ" (the most delicious part) hue suggests. At which a young man Itses and goe8~outr~"PreaeuHy lip re^| Runts with the huge tusked bead. Dan- ' ?ling from It Is a foot or so of thick, phlte windpipe. This i* COt Into short lengths, apportioned out, and eaten pith the greatest gusto. .ENTY OF STORAGE PLACES v /oman Who Ha* Made Homo Into a Veritable "House of a. Thou sand Closets." One little womhn living not far from New York, says Harriet Slsson Gilles pie In'the MofherV Magazine. has been| able by the expenditure of a moderate sura of money to transform an Imprac ticable closetless dwelling Into one In which housekeeping Is not only * pleasure, but where tho problem of storing away clothing has been satls jfactorily solved. Among her friends It Is knOwn as| "the house of a thousand closets/* which Is nearly If not literally true. Every little cubby hole below the I shingles has been utilised for closet space. There are banks of closets on f both tho second and attic floors, to say nothing of a cedar closet with sun and air and electric light, for the .recep tion of the owner's choicest posses* slons. Some of the closets are cedar lined, others sheathed with matched boards of Noath Carolina pine, well shellacked to keep out the moths and ?frequently sprayed with a liquid In which oil of cedar plays a part. A printed, list of every article con tained in the drawers and cupboards is tacked In plain sight In order that the frantic search for inanimate things that seem suddenly to have taken wings and flown away, may be entirely obviated. New York and Quebeo. Quebec City is older than New York, ,lt was founded in 1066 bj< Samuel d? Champlain, whereas the earliest date that can be set for the founding of New York Is 1610. New York Bay and the Hudson river were discovered by Verrazano In 1524, and the discovery was followed by occasional ? visits oi 'trading and exploring vessels until the arrival of Henry Hudson in 1609, one year after Champlain had built his fort mid chateau on the slope leading up to the heights of Quebec. Begin nine with 1010 Dutch merchants dls patched several vessels, to engage in the tur trade with tl^e Indians, and In 1014 u ship commander Adrian Block, having lost Ills vessel, built the^On* rust" or "Restless" on the shores of the upper harbor of Npw York. About the sarrte time a few huts'" were built on the south end of Manhattan Island. In K-Tt the country was erected into a province by the Dutch, and the seat of government was established on Man hattim islnnd, on part of tfye site of the present city of New York. Dutch rule commenced, and continued until September 8, 1664, almost one hundred years before the British acquired New France or Canada. Japanese Steel Production. Through^ recent investigations by the mining bureau, says Commerce Re* 'pfirTs, It is learned* that the total pro ducing ch pa city of Japanese steel mills was 8H8.(XK) tons, in round figures, last August, according to the Japan Adver tlst-;. T Miring the first half of the past y*?r liSfi.OOO tons of various shapes were produced in this country, excltl siw of the colonies. Of this amount 20o.ux) tons were produced by the gov eminent steel works. The Japan Steel Tus, (?,, turned out 22,000 tons ; the Japnn steel Works, 14,000 tons; the Kawasaki Dockyard Co., 12,000 tons.: ?n<l the Kamaishi Steel Works, 10,000 tons * /., ? ' The Advertiser quotes officials as wylni: that at the end of the past year the products of those mills reached ?r>70,00<) torn net. Compared with the prei-edfng year this is an increase of fj? cent. It this rate of Increase Is maintained. 1918 tfilt see a further at least to 650000 tons net. * CITY HAVING RAPIO GROWTH i i \ i ?? *1 Norfolk Bid* *alr*to Break all Rao. orda at Har Present Rata . Of Progrea*. ) TIm-iv is not a city In this country, -1 perhaps none In the world, that la growing at a more rapid rate than Ncrr folk," tvinurked O. W. 8ljcrr, imtmiKor of one of the leading hotels of that city, at the Ualelgh, the Washington' Post states. "The last CfMQ? gave the population of Norfolk at 1*8* than 70,000. Today tt Is estimated that Nor folk Is n city of 140,000, or tuorethau double ttu slxe it wan In 1910. Wasl^ ingtou pridkf itself on the- tremendous growth attained In the lasf two or three yetfrs. I take considerable pride In the growth of Washington, for I lived here nmny years, but the pro portionate Increase In the population of the national capital cannot compare with that of Norfolk. Of course, both cities are helped by war business. Washington, I presume. 1* the busiest city In the world, but Norfolk In al most next. ??Hampton Roads Is filled with ships. Battleships are passing In and Out every hour, and soldiers and sailors ate filling the streets, hotels and resi dences of Norfolk. Oqjy recently I saw some 2,000 soldiers from New Zen land parading through the streets of Norfolk. Many of them were not young. New Zealand already has sent close to 160,000 men to the front In France, and Belgium, out of a popu lation of 1.500,000, and Is still sending men, which should be an object Wes son to us. "Business Is booming in "Norfolk as never before. The hotels are filled to overflowing just as they are In Wash' Ington, New business blocks -are go lug up and tha residence section? Qf the city are being extended far Into the outlying districts. I venture to say . that in another decade Norfolk will come close to being the leading city In the Old Dominion, both in population and Importance." STRANGE VARIETIES OF FOOD People of Different Parta of the Earth Are 8hown to Have Decidedly Different Tastes. Strange foods, such as potato flour, artificial protein cakes, green bone-dust preparations, tabloid soups, pudding powders and other unusual things, have come Inte use during the war and their adoption serves to remind us that much good food material is neglected In or dinary use. Only a few people eat snails ; most of us would starve amidst plenty of locusts; and the thought of snakes as food would give those who call themselves civilized the shudders. But unusual food, once become fa miliar, often relished. Colouel Itoosevelt got the best work from his men* on his African expedition by premising them raw steaks from slaughtered hippopotamuses. Cap tain Bartlett, who carried Stefahsson to the arctic water* found raw polar bear flesh more appetizing than any* thing he had eaten at home. Frenchmen eat snails and dog stealra cost there more than mutton, gome arctic tribes prefer to have their flsh decomposed before eating them, and even then perhaps they smell no worse than Llinburger or Brie cheese. South Americans eat lizards and mares' milk Is a favorite Russian beverage. Truly, "there is no accounting for tastes.*' ? New York Sun. i ? : Playing the Man. _ No matter, what part he may be playing In the strenuous game of life as it is presented tbday, the brother-' hood man, above all Others, must play the man. These are times when *the best that Is In us must be given to. "carry on," and the race run with" steadfastness and a manly purpose. As Kobert I*. Stevenson so beautifully puts it : "Whether we regard life as a line leading to a dead wail ? a mere bag's end, as the French say ? or whether we think of it as a vestibule or gymnasium, where we wait our turn and prepare* our facilities for some more noble destiny ; whether we thun der in a pulpit or pule In' little esthetic poetry books about Its vanity and brev ity, whether we look Justly for years of health and vigor, or are about to mount Into a batlv chair, as a step to wards the hearse; in each and all of these views and situations there Is but one conclusion possible; that a ihun shotild stop his ears against paraly sing terror and run the race that Is set before him with a single mind." ^Flying Fish" forpe^T Aerial torpedoes ? the bane of Ger man submarine crews and first-line trenches ? have been called "flying flsh," because their tapering cylindri cal bodies and huge air-fins suggest the tropfc sea creatures. The torpe does are held upright In the air and given a diving velocity by the air re sistance which strikes the fins, spin ning them round and round. Con trary to popular Impressions, certain forms of air resistance spe^d up rather than retard falling objects. Not only tho aerial torpedoes, but all air-, plane bombs and darts, are now groo r?; <?(1 or finned to whirl in fall ing. flie German Zeppelin bombs afe similarly constructed. Umi of Potatoes In 8weden. ? Uses made of Swedish potato crop, officially estimated this year nt $4,244, $20 bushels, will be Interesting to peo ple ,ot the .(Jolted States. Of the en tire crop, 37.1 per cent Is used for di rect human consotupUon; 82.7 per cent 'Is fed to animals, and 6.5 per c<-nt Is u$ed iri flour mafclng. The loss In storage is 11.9 per cent and 11.8 per cent Is retained for seed. * * tt rf. , * rr i'i ; I x 4 ^ *? : hONEEK LIFE IN MISSOUHI Was "Fine for Men and Ooo*," but Undoubtedly Also Hard on , the Women. -.V "V-.V ' ' V. \\ '*/ " "In Pioneer Families of Missouri, ** Is printed a. letter written by u woman to her sister In Kentucky, the Kansas Olty Star says: "The men uiul dogs have a'flne time, but W6 poor women have to suffer. We pack water from one-half mile to. one mile for cooking atut washing. My ad- j vice Is stay where you are. But if you see anyone coming to this country, ! send a plank cradle for pbor little Pat rick. Ills poor lUU? back Is full of hard bumps, lying lu a cradle George made out of a hollow log, with a piece of wood for a pillow. Oeorge and I at tended a wedding last week. The preacher, a hard-shell Baptist, ha<J a long buckskin overcoat. The groom was In his shirt sleeves, with white cotton pants that came Just below his knees, and white cotton socks and buckskin slippers on hla feet. Th.1V girl was dressed In a low-necked, short walsted; short-sleeved white cotton dress that was monstrous short for a girl like her. She had on buckslcln slippers and her hair was tied with a buckskin string, which Is all the go here. And when the preacher was spelling and reading the ceremony from the book, the* girl commenced sne<tslng atj<J the buckskin string slipped off her hair, which fell all over her face, and everybody laughed." An early marriage cereanony lu Liv ingston county took place with the couple on one side of Medicine creek and Squire Jordan on the other side. The creek was booming. The young man swam the stream aud brought the squire down from his house. Then the young man swam back and took bis. f pbgrrtrbcHtrto the yonngwoman. Squire Jordan couldn't swim. He wanted to postpone the ceremony n few days un til the creek went down. The young folks wouldn't have It. They joined Jiands and told the squire to go ahead. The questions and answers were shout ed across the creek and the knot was tied. Medicine creek got Its name, ac cording to tradition, because a country doctor in trying to swltn It lost his "pill bags." as they were called. POTASH ALWAYS IN DEMAND Hard to Obtain Sufficient Quantity of This Most Important of Fertilizers: Potash Is perhaps the most Impor tant of fertilizers. Although potas stum, In Its combinations, Is one of the most widely distributed of the ele ments, It Is fotmd massed /In bulk In only a few placos. The Saxpn deposits at fitassfurt, and the bods In Alsace, are the world's chief sources of sup ply. Elsewhere, potash Is to be had only by the treatment of great quantities of material, with a small resultant yield. The case is not as bnd as that of radium, where a ton of ore may. give only a fraction of a grain of the pre cious metal ; but It Is bad enough to make Its extraction an extremely cost ly process. The farmer's wife has al ways known how to leach potash from wood ashes In sufficient quantity to make the soft soap for the family washing, but this method does not pay commercially. p 1 'T;.'/.';. Horse'# Jumping Powers. If the reader will carefully measure, out 89 feet an Idea of a horse's capac lty In this ffiirectlon Will be gathered. Such a distance a steeplechase horse called Old Chandler Is reported to have covered at Warwick many years ago ; and there is more than one apparently authentic record of a horse clearing over seven feet in height. ? The scene of such an exploit was at the Phoenix park, Dublin, and the horse was called Turnip. The animal belonged to Sir E. Crofton,. and the duke of lllchroond, t^en lord lieutenant of Ireland, wa gered ?500 that this height couli) not be cleared. A wall of the require di mensions was built, and when finished vTurnip was ridden at it. He did what was asked of him in perfect style, but it happened that his grace, not know ing that tho feat was ^*eady for per formance, was not lookipg when the j Jump wns made, and Turnip was there ! fore ridden over It again, not only suc j cessfully, but easily.? London Tit-Bits. | ' ' \ Catching Monkeys. The well-known habit of monkeys to imitate the actions of man Is cleverl^ utilized by wlld*anlmal catchers in tak ing be agile, climbing creatures cap tive? says Popular Mechanics Maga jilirer" The hunters' method is to walk 'about for some time within ?lght of Jthe wild monkeys, wearing short boots. 'Then the boots are taken off and gum is placed In their bottoms, after which :the men withdraw from the scene. Be t/ore long the curiosity of the Imitative watchers in the trees gets the better of their caution and they descend and start to try on the boots, whereupon they discover that the footwear cannot be removed and, being unable to climb, are easily captured. v t 1 , ; ? - . Strong Negatives. There Is ooe groat advantage about keeping both glass and 'film negatives Ifl envelopes made of transparent pa per-rthat the negative can be look ad at and identified without taking it out ef its envelope. More negatives are damaged by being turned over to find sortie particular one than by the lapse of time, and the transparent en velope protect* them from injury f mm this source. ? -A system of filing and ! cataloging, by which iny* negattvW re { quired etn tp found with a minimum of disturbance of the others. also tends ;to prevent damage. REGISTRATION NOTH K The lktokt . of Registration for Ker ^re now o|?cu at the Court Ilousc, iu the Clerk of Court'# otto*, and Will remain open every da> except Sunday, until August iUst. Attention is called to the fuct tlmt in oilier to vote in iho (Jeneral Election Mil- year it wU) bo neee*sgry to have a registration wr titicate issued during July or August* as a certitlcato isxued prior to that time Will not bo good, mUo that iu. order to secure a certificate it will be neeejwa ry to produce a tax receipt. BOARD PK HKOIHTIiATlOV for' Kershaw Couu... . July tuts. OPKK.V IIOl.SK STtlHK AND THKATRK 1 ok RENT. The Opera House Store ami Warehouse in mow for rent. Also the Theatre part of the Opera House for rent foe* one year hegiuuiug August 1st, 1018. Apply to S. K. Hiasiugtou, Mayor. ? " jftlly Ji, IW1K. SHERIFF'S 3ALE Stati' of South Carolina. County of Kerabiw. Court of Common PI eg*. , 11. Kauiinski, 10. W, Kauiinski, Joe Kiuninski, Joseph Schenk and Herman Schenk, Co-partners in trade under the lirin name of The Kauiinski Hardware Co.. ' Plaintiff, v*. '' \V. H. Pearce and W. "M. Youag co partners in trade undt'i' the tirui name of Pearce -Youug. Defendants. AKI) State of South Carolina. t^unty? of KertdiaWT? ? Court of Commons Pleas - The (Odorless Refrigerator Co.. Plaintiff. vs. W, II.-. IVaree and W. M. Young,, cor partners as Pearce- Voting, Defendants. ' I'nder and by virtue of exeeutions iatuied in the above entitled actions 1 have levied upon the interest of W. M. Young in and to three certain tracts of laud situate in Kershaw County, South Carolina, containing in- the aggregate 40,"? acres, mor<v or lew*, which I will offer for sale In front of the Court House door in Camden, S. IV. on the first Mon day in August 1018. being the 5th day thereof, during the legal hours of hiiIo : All of the interest of \V. M. young in and to all that certain piece, parcel, tract or tracts of land containing 328 acres, more or less, situate from about five to six miles north-east of the City of Camden, in' the County and State aforesaid, bounded North by Innds of Chas. Holland. David Pearee and- prob ably others; East by lands of J. E. E. Bran uon and probably others and West by binds of Peck and probtibly others. A -tract* containing forty acres, nune or less, , situate about seven miles north-east of" the City of Camdeu, in the. County pf Kershaw, v State of South Carolina, bounded North by lauds of Ned Williams; East by lauds, of Harmon Marshall and lands of Willie Drakeford ;. South by lands of Add Pate and lands of Poston, and West by Camden Porter Bridge Road and lands of Hlcoj Churhh. ?Mrd. A tract of land situate about six mile* North-east *bf Cauiden, County and State aforesaid, ou the public high way kno\vn as the Wire Road, bounded North by lands of Pinder Jones; East by lands of Geo. T. Little, South by lands of J. E. L. Hraunon and lands of Lnugley and West and Wire Road and probably by lauds of Chas. Holland, said to contain thirty acres, more or less.' j Terms id sale cash, purchaser to pay for papers. I. a. HOUGH. ' . Sheriff Kershaw County. LEGAL ADVERTISING. WE EXTEND THIS INVITATION WITH PER- ' FECT CONFIDENCE. IK YOU WILL COME TO US FOR THAT ? : ':V "v':. : WE GUARANTEE THAT YOU WILL NOT ON LY BE 'SUITED, BUT THAT YOU WILL NEVER RE- 1 GRET YOUR, CHOICE. WE HAVE THE SEASON'S CHOICEST PAT TERNS AND FABRICS TO CHOOSE FROM. AND CAN PLEASE THE MOST DISCRIMINATING^. WHEN YOU SUIT YOURSELF YOU ARfc PER FECTLY SUITED. YOU DO THAT AT THIS STORE. Baruch-Nettles Co. CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA Senatorial Campaign. ' IUdgelaud, Friday July 20 Beaufort, Saturday July 27 Hampton. Monday July 21) " Barnwell Tuesday July. 30 Bainl?erg, Wednesday July 31 Aiken, Thursday August 1 Kdgelield, Friday August 2 Saluda. Saturday August 3 Oxlngt<m, Tuesday 'August 0 NewH?erryf Wednesday August 7 ? Laurens, Thursday August 8 Greenwood, Friday August 0 Abbeville, Saturday August 10. McOormlok, Tues<l^* August 13 Auderson, Wednesday August 14 Walhalla, Thursday August 15 L Pickens, Friday August 10 Greenville Satunlay August 17 Union, Wednesday August 21 'Gaffney, Thursday August 22 Spartanburg, Friday August 23 State Campaign Cheater, Friday July 20 Wiunshoro, Saturday July 'J7 Oatiicleii. Tuesday July SO Chesterfield, Wednesday July 81; JJehnettsvIlle, Thursday August t Darlington, Friday August 2 Bishopvllle, Saturday August 8 Sumter Tuesday August 0 Dillon, Wednesday August 7 . C-onway, Thursday August 8 Marlon, Friday August 0 Florence, Saturday August 10 Manning, Tuesday August 13 Kings tree, Wednesday August 14 ... Georgetown, Thursday August 10 Moiick'? Corner, Friday August 16 , Cltarleston, Saturday August 17 St. George. Tuesday, August .20 < >rnngetinrg, Wednesday August ?1 St. Matthew#, Thursday August 22 Columbia, Friday August '23 Sergeant. Thomas Hitchcock of Ai ken, S. C., who wan raptured at Cha teau Salius on M^relt 0 last, Is a pris- r: oner af Camp Darmstadt. One House and f<o t on the Southeast Corner of Haile And Fair Streets Contains five rooms, hall, pun try, and one bath room. Also servant's toilet. This house is practically new, having boon erected in 1015. The building could not be ereotod now at the price asked for the entire property. Ivot measures 7.r> feet front on Fair Street by 120 feet deep. The above can be purchased at a very reasonable figure. One House and I/ot oil the South Side of Ifaiie Street,- * - ?? .Just off Fair Street, immediately in rear of nbove described property. Description of the house exactly as above except no servant's toilet. Lot measures 80 feet on JIaile street 7.") feet deep* Can '"fee purchased reasonably, One House and I<ot on the Southwest -Corner of Haile nod Mill Streets - ?+:; . Contains Four rooms, largo hall, kitchen and pmall room used for butlers pantry, . ' Nice size lot. reasonable. ^ . Farm Containing Fifty -Five Acres, l^our Miles North of Camden. > Ituildings : Two dwellings of four rooms each; two barns; two p tables; one cotton house. Two wells on place. The buildings on this place could not bo erectcd for the price asked for th$ entire property;- For any one 'seeking a small farm this is an exceptional opportunity. J.nuk the property over and make us an offer. Plantation Containing 425 Acres, Situate Four Miles Northeast of Camden on Liberty Hill Road. ; One hundred and seventy-five acres under cultivation, balance in woods. Some long aud short leal pine saw timber. About one hundred aud twenty-five acres in pasture for hogs and cattle, and. about two" huudred acres more under wire fence. Two never failing streams of running water on the place. . . \ ? , __ 6 '' < ?' W fffiezryi J ' ? ? , ? ? - r- . L - . ? f _V"'y y ...... Huildings: <>ne five rooqi dwelling, one three room tenant house, - one ^ four room, tenant house, one two room tenant house, two large barns, one large cotton house, all built on brick pillars. It will be well for any one contemplating the purchase ??f a plantation of this size to look- this property over before buying clesewherc. The property is situated on main highway leading into the City of Cam den. We Invited you to look this property over. * Inspection can be had at any time. c ? ? f V p 1 We write Fire, Life, Accident, Health, Plate Glass, Steam Boiler, 'Automobile. Employer's Liability, Live stock, Hall, ?Bnrglary, Tornado, Surety Bands, and all other lines of INSURANCE. tX' THE CAMDEN^ LOAN & REALTY COMPANY 1015 1-2 Brood St.. J. LOCK WOODMWRPHY. Mgr. l^pRDEN, S C.