The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, October 10, 1919, Image 2
USE IN ADVERSITY
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Generally a Working Out 6t the
Law of Compensation.
Undoubted Fact That Opposition or
Hardship Tend* to Briny Out
the t*Mt l here Is In Man's
Composition.
MJ wish I COlihl slide ulong In busi
ness a* fit hi I y HH QetH'H** XeMgrttVS,"
hhIU John NcIhoii, hh he joined his
father In the library after, dinner.
"What's up now?" asked IiIh father.
"(>h, nothing," replied the son, "only
George h 11 k just Uoen appointed asslst
?ut general manager of his father's
flrnT. It doesn't scout rigid for a fellow
to have an tul vantage like that given
to him, while fellows like me have to
dig for everything (hoy get,"
"Jtut that seems to he the way the
world Ik iiiude, John, and tUe more 1
moo of It the more I'm convinced II'h
u capital arrangement. I used to feel
as you do, hut I've lived long enough
to see a great many things adjust
themselves. There Is a law of com
pensation ut work, my hoy, and no
class has alt the advantages. It would
be a very poor world If we all slid
along as easily as George docs.'"
"What do you mean by that?" asked
the sou.
"J Hst this: It takes opposition or
hardship, or whatever you please to
call it, to bring out the best In us and
make us, good for anything. You
know tjie old saying, 'It's three gener
ations from shirt sleeves to shirt
sleeves.' A man goes out In his shirt
sleeves and gets Ids living, hut he de
cides that his <1dldren shall have more
opportunity than he, so he gives them
an education. The sons make money
by tjiolr educational advantages, and
they pass It on to their sons, who have
never known the struggle of acquisi
tion. The sons' sons go through It. And
so the -shirt -sleeve , process begins
again. It doesn't always happen so, but
It happens with sntticent regularity to
form the basis of a proverb. The ex
ception proves the rule."
"Yes, but It needn't be so," replied
the boy.
"I know that," replied the father,
"but there Is chough truth in it to
prove what I want to say. ftven (Sod
himself put the Jews through the proc
ess of adversity to whip them Into
shape. It was only about four hundred
miles in a bee Hue across the* wilder
ness. Hnt (Sod made the Jews take
forty years to gel to Canaan, because
be wanted to toughen them and mnko
tliom ready for the conquest, when he
got them there. The Bible says ho
'led them not through the way of the
land of the Philistines, although that
?vas near.'. They would have got there
too quickly to stand the hardship. And
If they had defeated the Philistines,
they would have been unprepared for
? still \forse enemy; I mean the opu
'rnce and plenty of Canaan..
"Men' are defeated by easy victories
ti i) < I cheap miecesses more than by nd
r-ersltles. Disraeli was hissed, down In
;be British parlhinicnt when he made
Ills maiden speech. Hut that only
toughened his fibre and stiffened bis
resolve. ( Jrant's reverses were the
ichool In which he learned how to win
his Init-r victories. It makes all the
ilfTerence whether a closed door Is
i final rebuff or mi invltatlou to battle
through. I'm more afraid of a cheap
*nd easy success for you than I am of
M niggle. If you struggle before you
achieve, you will have character to
hold you steady when success arrives.
The trouble with many persons Is that
they have no character to go with their
icqiiisitlons. It Is a case of diamonds
on dirty fingers.
"lla\e you never seen an engine
pounding itself to pieces on a slippery
r:iil In winter? What It needed was
?and. <>|qiosil ion. Friction spelled pro
gress ft veil m kite est n't rise wlih the
wind. It most M-.?'Md stirsiinvt it. !>on't
spend votir 1 1 1 1 it - qiuirreling with the
order nf (lungs nr fretting :tt?out some
? lie else's ea > \ s-iiviws Art < > : t K grows
III ihe opeti, torllll'ed t>\ ;i thousand '
s t o i ? 1 1 1 > . The h ? ? 1 1 1" ' i *-e plsuit never I
knows the ;;lor\ of the -k\ " Youth's
( '?>in| ui? >n.
Russian Bison Exterminated.
\\h:it li.iv ih iI. illicitly tlic wnr. I
to tin* !< herds ,,f (Vtiirni Knrope? '
I I" i I ? \ .1 ? Mx : t of 1 lie <*/.!! I" |
A ! c \ :i l : ' !i t. t ? i ? 1 1 < Mill e\is|e?| In '
|>t* i \ :i 1 1 ? |>;irKs >>l I '< ?1 : i n < I : 1 1 1 ? S I ,i 1 )i 1 1 : i n i:i . |
the l:t<t i>i ilii ir Km. I iii lit: i* i >) ? ? ? . ( 'mint
1 '( 'I .'s I u '( i ! \\;|v u ? ? J ? t ill :i!i I n I II I * *1 1 St 1
I'll rk. .it! t ? i r .-.He. friiir v\;.s J I r, . t . ? . ? r ?-< I
l>> 'he ? nvsii.'k.s ..f the I i. > 1 1 1 *. 1 1 1 lie
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I'.xly, !i I i ? i so, in It;.1 L'> fi.l.il . ;itui ; vsilj,
the f:itn<tus herd ? I ? ^ . 1 1 ? | >i
Magpie Pet of Public.
III.* tnntrjiio In Kensington _:irdens
has 1 1 . ; 1 1 1 \ friends who ;i!t.'i..J his ? In ; J y
JeVee. I Hie uf M> lender II hr.il't (hut
she .?i.tirffilx chicken boi.es n. her
IililfT f<>r his delight U?s t.il.l H.:, f nn
offering of menl wurins u.nild ; . r. > \ ??
irreslst Ible
She so)-!. I "lis . |c! i ('ii r , I . ? j r . ? n I v
to learn tluif it Im now un<iti?a!n:ible
For menl-worms, us nn artlele .if bird
fare. enine froin Ocnniiny
Must of iim will hear with e'jimnlmlty
the disappearance of this strange** of
Ilnnnlah trades. Tu the authorities
of the Zoological i*a rdens, however,
the rvob'<?m of iiionl wonii production
sr. i<I to he a weighty hip still un
gOJred. ? London Chronicle.
TURNED TO COMMERCIAL USE
Hlator c Mansion In Mexico City Re
modiled and Mad* Into Jyplcal
American Drug Store.
The conversion of the "House of
Til ?a" In the Ofty of Mexico Into a typ
ical Ajuerlcan drujf store marks (In*
passing of one of the moat palatial and
unique structure* ever erected In that
c|t^ of interesting buildings. Many
person* In the United States remember
the housi* as t h<> "Jockey club." the
most exclusive and aristocratic place
of Its kind In the republic, hut for tho
past few years It has stood on a prom
I incut downtown corner, a bleak, de
crepit structure, whose shiny and
gaudy exterior of tile Rave evidence
of Its former glory. Moon It will open
for business as a dm# store.
The date when the building's jfoun*
datloiiH were lahl Is lost in obscurity,
but It Is thought that It was started
about 1T>JM1, hater It came Into the
possession of Don Louis de Hi vet o, a
man of varied career, who was re
sponsible for Its exterior coat of tiles.
These latter are of blue, yellow and
white, Moorish In design, and were
made by artisans brought from Taln
vera, Spain, by the Dominican friars
In the sixteenth cmtury. They were
modeled In a special ceramic factory
at I'uebla, abfuit 75 miles distant, and
the completion of this decoration was
the occasion for a public celebration.
The family of Don Luis de ltlvero,
who later became the count of Ori
zaba, remained in potfseaslou of the
house until the time of tho Ill-fated
Kmperor Maximilian. Its last occu
pant was u alster of the then Count
de Orizaba, upon whom the emperor
conferred the title of mnrquesn de
< 'Ida.
Later the structure was taken over
by the Jockey club and converted in
to a sumptuous club house. Stories
of fabulous sums won and lost at Its
gaming tables persist to this day.
Stirring revolutionary times caused
its abandonment, and for several
years tlx' building was vacant until
t !??? present lessees secured It for a
period of twenty years.
Indicative perhaps of an intention
by the government to restore It later
Is the fact that before renovation
started photographs were taken of all
Interesting portions of the building, in
cluding tin* huge carved door.
Freakish Costumes.
In the reign of Henry VIII of ling
land the sleeve was- generally a sepa
rate article of dress, and In Stubbes'
time sleeves hung down to the skirts,
"trayllng on the ground and cast over .
the shoulders Mice a cow's tayle." j
Ylollet-le-Duc gave cuffs whit* IT ttun.**"
down 14 Inches longer than the hand. j
thus proying that the wearer never j
worked. In the time of James I some ?
times three pairs of gloves were worn,
one over another. A curious custom I
n rose about 1704 of hat-wearing within I
doors. The I'adnung youiig women pCit J
metal collars around their necks when
they were young children till they
numbered between 'JO and 30 and the
necks of the wearers were stretched
out in the most grotesque and uncom
fortable fashion. African, belles wear
great copper rings on their limbs,
which get so hot in the sun that an I
"attendant has to carry water with i
which occasionally to cool them down, j
Dressed Beef.
Some soldiers at camp spied a cow
in a nearby Held and after capturing
her with the intention of having a
drink of milk on the owner they dis
covered to their disgust that she was
dry.
A disappointed doughboy leveled his
pun at her, saying: "She'd look better
to me as dressed beef."
"("Jive you $;"> If you turn the trick,"
said another. "It's a g^." said the tlrst
one. "I'll turn her into dressed beef
before morning and claim that $f?." .
None of us thought he meant it, but |
In the morning he elaimcd the money. |
saving the Cow was now dressed beef.
We had to be shown, so were taken to |
the field, atld there, sure etmngh. the
row was dressed. She was eareeriug
nbout the Meld in a eomplete outfit of !
j the kitchen pollee.- K\I ?hanue.
Avenues of Communication.
Still ;i i j ? * w of lotnniunirat i?'t) ,
hits been ? 1 ? ? \ i ! Nn Illicit N 111:111 1
(.? I ??? dependent "ii the ; 1 i r for the
r :? piil ! r:i 1 ! **m 1 s*?i on 'J ine?sa yes ; for.
a tn?\\ i n \ ? > 1 1 1 i i > 1 1 in? ??!??!?*? 1 :i l'l ? ?;? t >1
barge in S:iii I 'Irgo t>;iy. ( 'a li f ? ? r r 1 i :i
ha- 1 1 ui ? I ?? |io?*ible lite "ending of iiicv
siloes through n't' ;")'l xv j? T ??r. And
a pi <r? I ely en?uch. t ! 1 ? ? le?.t of |?r"Mf
I'liinc when flu* I *11 it oil Siiiti'N Nits 1 ?
(i?'l >a rt 1 1 1 r?it t v?'iit m I r? ? 1 1 1
\nnapoti*. Mini l;?n<l. to tin* I'.iii.nIi
A dmi ra ! 1 y. tel'iiii:. in tin- < ? f
ill.- :? r i" i \ 1 of the It '! I In Ainenra. .
Ito'd !,< I \ . ? 1 1 ! u rer 1 1 :i > 1 eonipiered the
.nr. i 1 1 ? 1 ????<! . but not !"ii? ?r*? an
other group. le*- <pe. 1:1. ? 1 1 :i r ?. h.ir
!less?'d till' S?';l illlil lllllll ! 1 1 their OW 11
I '}< rt iculit r reipii re men < s.
Keep Children in School.
"Children ? h o 1 1 1 d j?tay in ?? iiM,<! h<
!h|)l' as possible he?-;u]Se education
t:.ians I ? 1 ? 1 1 ?"? r Jobs," r h federal chil
dren'* bureau urires. "Ilo\s an<l u'iri?
who cm to work a( the enri nf cmniiniir
s. tiMMl rarely get pood >>b.s. The uopk
: tlii'V find to do is usually unskilled;
it offers little traininc "r rhanre for
I :.?!% a u?*e!n#*nt. When lhey n re older
they find they nre ?t||| untrnlne?l for
skilled work that offers ? future Rdu
j ration means higher wage* M rt n y
i boys and girls when they leave s< hool
find work that offers ? hich wnce for
a beginner. Hut the*p wages sol. lorn
I frow beeaune the work requires no
tmlnlnft. A position with n future and
iteadlly Increasing ^a^rs requir**
?ohool trninlng."
DEATH RECALLS FAMOUS DUEL
Qrana ion of "Dan" O'Connelt Uacd to
Till? of "Liberator'*" Mooting
With D'Eatorro.
Mr. O'Connell, grandson of
the "Liberator," died h few days ago
at 1 > I h t'rsiitf/x'r, Darrynane abbey, Wi
terVlHe, Ireland, In his eighty-fourth
year. lie wax a magistrate and dep
uty lieutenant for County Kerry, and
nerved tin* office of high sheriff in IHflO.
A Dublin gentleman has hi) Interest*
111# picture of the late Mr. O'Connell
holding the pistol which his grandfa
t her used In a famous duel. The fol
lowing description of the encounter la
taken from IiIk own description :
In a speech at h Catholic meeting
on January 24. 181ft. the 'Liberator* re
ferred to the f >rango corporation of
Dublin as a 'beggarly corporation.*
f >'Ksterre, a meinber of the corpora*
(Ion imd a well known shot with pis
tols, demanded an explanation, which
was refused.
"After consulting Ida friends, D'Ks
terre paraded the streets for two days
with the avowed intention of horse
whipping O'Connell. The two, howev
er, did not meet, and finally D'Ksterre
sent Sir Kdward Stanley with a mes
?nge demanding an explanation.
O'Connell referred Sir Kdward to Ma
jor MaeNamarra, a Protestant gentle
inan of County Clare, who refused to
give any explanation, whereupon . Sir
Kdward Stanley delivered a challenge,
which was accepted, and half-past
three that afternoon, at Bishop's court,
OOuilty Klldare, four or flVe mites from
Naaa, on the road to Dublin, was fixed
for the meeting. . s> ' /*.
"They inet accordingly and fired to
gether, by signal. D'Ksterre's bullet
went wide. O'Connell aimed low, In
tending to hit D'Ksterre in the leg, but
actually did so In the groin. The bul
let went through, penetrating the blad
der, and came out at the back, inflict
ing a mortal wound. D'Ksterre lived
for two (lays only.
"The pistols used by the 'Liberator'
were given him by an Knglish officer,
quartered In Dublin, to whom he had
done a kindness, and who, when giving
them, said, as a proof of their good
ness, that they had. already killed ten
men. They are a pair of 'Itlgby's Par
ticulars,' and Mr. O'Connell often shot
at a mark with them, and found them
to b< very good and accurate.
"D'Kstcrre's daughter married Lieu
tpnitnt Roberts of the British royal
navy, who eommnndotKJhe Sirlus, the
first vessel to go from Cork to Amer
ica (Boston) under her own steam, and
subsequently the President, which was
lost with, all on board, on the way
from ,Ww York to Liverpool."
Way of "Parior Socialist."
When Philadelphia shall have com
pleted lis great underground and ele
vated railway system and also paid
fur i In- immense Delaware front Im
provements, the city debt per person
will be around $100.
But in some German cUles like
Frankfort nnd Munich, where social
istic ideas ruled before .the. war, the
municipal debts were over six times
that amount, writes "Cilrard" in the
Philadelphia Press. .
The parlor socialist Is a great chap
for devising ways to take money out
of other people's pockets, but a dead
failure at suggesting a method of put
ting money in your pocket.
One who worked with and knew him
well tells me a favorite remark of
MaJ. Luther Bent was this:
"My board of directors is a board
that I direct."
Were the veteran major alive today
and operating a hi# plant he would dis
cover that some sort of a commission
rooted In politics would really direct
Ills directors as well a?j himself.
Pay of British Flyers Raised.
Particulars the now scale of pay
for officers holding permanent or short
service commissions in the reconsti
tuted Hritlsh air force have been made
known hy the air ministry. A uniform
! system of rates for all branches (with
l t he" except Ion of certain specialist serv
ices) has been adopted, the pay rang
ing from the shillings per day, for a
i endet, to ?7 for a general.
The rail's, it Is explained, have been
fixed with reference to the present
j high cost of living, and It has been de
cided that 20 per cent of the pay nnd
I retired pay will be considered as due
thereto, it n> 1 will be subject, after five
years, to change, either upward or
downward, according as the cost of
' living rises or falls. Subsequently re
! \isinti>. will be made at three yearly
intervals on the ba>is of board of trade
food prices.
The H. C. of L. in Mexico.
In the past nine years the cost of
living in M?-\ico has shown an average
Increase of 'J 1 per cent, according to
figures recently made public by the
department of Industry, labor and
: commerce, st ii Associated Press dis
patch from Mexico City says. Several
staples have greatly increased. I.ard
has advanced .VJ.". per cent in price;
sugar, 2."W per cent, and eggs, 260 per
cent
1 Woolen fabrics now cost 471 per cent
I more than In 1010 ; cotton goods .TOO
per cent more and shoes 106 per cent
' more. House rents have Increased 140
j per cent, trolley fares 66 per cent and
J railroad fares 'jn j>*?r cent. Natives'
shoes cost *4.r?0 a pair In 1010. Today
they are $12 a pair.
Taken for Beggar.
One <UiY I was walking through the
park nnd I stopped and asked h man
? for tho rime, lie put his hand In his'
! pocket "and pulled out a dime. That
t eerth'.n'? did mnke m?> feel like two
j cents. I looker! nr him nnd snld : "I
' wanted the tiling, please." ? Kxchanga.
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Mack Sennett s
Latest and Funniest Production
"Yankee Doodle in Berlin"
In Conjunction with Mack Sennett's
APPEARING AT EVERY PERFORMANCE
IN PERSON
Extra Addded Attraction Dixieland Own Jazz Band
? ' - * ? * ? * ? '
In Jazz Harmony and Syncopation i . !
Original Show Direct from Broadway Theatre, N. Y.
SHOWN IN CAMDEN ONE DAY ONLY At
Majestic Theatre, Saturday, Oct. 18
Admission $1.00, ^Children 50c ? Performance: 2:30, 4:30, 6:30, 8:30 P.M.
Monument to Moll Weevil.
Over at Enterprise, Ala., a fund of
has been publicly subscribed and
this money will be used toverect a
monument (in one of the principal streets
..f that town. The monument will bo
raised not as a mark of respect to a
war hero,' nor yet to coaramunorate the
mtMiiory of some civic patriot. It will
1m* to no person. but it will be ejected
as novel as the whole thing sounds, to
a pest. This unique monument in this
Alabama city will be raised in appre
ciation of the boll weevil and what the
weevil lias done for the public good im
that section of the country.
Doubtless, when a few short years
ago the first of the weevil, long dread
ed, were found in the cotton fields in
the vicinity of Enterprise, the invasion
was regarded with the same anxiety that
farmers in the lower part of South Caro
lina felt last year when the cotton pe*t
lirst appeared in numbers in this State,
and which is at present shared by farm
ers and others in u wider territory as
the infested area broadens. Probably
they thought ruin stared them in the
face, these Alabama farmers long ac
customed to growing cotton and depend
ing upon cotton to the exclusion of prac
tically everything else, and wondered
what they would do siuce the post had
conic to make cotton growing unprofit
able. It is not difficult to imagine their
state of mind.
Hnt today, these same farmers and
their friends in the little Alabama city
Ofe about to raise a monument to the
boll weevil Wo read in connection with
this unusual plan *tliat those Alabam
ians are moved to thin action for the
reason that in former times, before the
boll weevil came, crops in Coffee county
were worth yearly one ami one half
million dollars as compared with present
crops of today worth four and one-half
millions. In addition, corn, hogs and
cattle are raised in larger numbers to
day than ever before. Coffee county
farmers, it is further .stated, were for
merly borrowers. Today they have mon
ey in the banks and some of them are
lending money. Therefore* in apprecia
tion of what the boll weevil has done
for thorn they will eroct a shaft in honor
of the pest. ?
If the boll weevil has proven a bless
t 4ft _
ing in Alabama there la no reason i
the cotton peat, emancipating the So
Carolina fanner from eottou slan
should not work the some transformat
in thin state. It is all in adapting oi
self to the new -conditions, as a mil
orf course. Had the farmers of Oo
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County, Alabama, attempted to keep
growing cotton in spite of the I
weevil they would have fared badly i
there would have been another story
tfll. Hut when it becomes impossible
depend any longer upon cotton they
tennined to beat the boll weevil by gn
ing something that the pest .could
thrive on, and turning to food crops l
livestock they have, it would app(
found the high road to agricultural
dependence and prosperity.
The invasion of South Carolina
the boll weevil 1 is assuredly no c*
for pessimism. With the coming of
pest come new conditions These m
be met,- but in adopting tbeanseU||
these new conditions South Carolina I
mers are only driven by Providence
do what they would have profited
voluntarily doing years ago. ? AI
Standard.
THE NORTHERN STAGES HAVE ADOPTED THE 56* AUTO TRACK WAGON
Which Wagon?
The One that Fits the Road ? or the One that Rides the Ridge
Recommended by the Government.
The standardized wagon fits the pre
vailing track made by automobiles and
is the wagon you will want to buy.
Wagon is Out of Date. This 60"
wide track wagon no longer fits the
roads when they are muddy and soft
WOULDN' T you rather buy the style of wagon recommended by your Governmen ,
especially when it is designed to pull easier, ride smoother, and last longer
wagon that fits the roads and does not ride the ridge? ,
The Standardized Columbus "Auto-track" Wagon saves wear on itsolt. ot er
wagons, automobiles, and rubber tires.
I he Columbus fifth-wheel and swivel-coupling wagon is either sold at a
much too low or moil other wagons aio sold at pricc? much too high, quality conaidered. Compare; anr
your own conclusion#. ^ ^ im 000
I o Hate the leading wagon manufacturers of America have sold at the moat conservative estimate ? ^
standardized nuto. track wagons. From this introduction it is but a step to universal umt of this type o
Wouldn't you rather be identified with progress and recognized as ah up-to-date farmer by doing your
with such ? wagon than to be classed as an un progressive ** back number " by buying a 60- men wi e
wagon, thereby helping some manufacturer and dealer to "unload" an obsolete type ? Think it over ? an
come and see us about a standardized auto-track Columbus.
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THE SOUTHERN STATES HAVE ADOPTED THE M' AUTO TRACK WAGOW