The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, February 20, 1920, Image 13
ELD UP BY WOMAN
male Bandit Uses Gun and
Secures $7,000.
rpinlhe Footpad Chatted at She
Friakod Pittsburgh
Banker,
/
ART MISSED MANY BEATS
llet Wound to Civil War Veteran
of Pittsburgh Caused AbnormaJ
Action.
Pittsburgh.?Andrew C. Gibson, sev
y-sevon years old, u member of
japan y I, Fourteenth Pennsylvania
jglry, during the Civil war, who
^ at Midway Sunday evening, had
distinction of having had 817,571,
less heart beats In . flfty-seven
?s of bis life than does ^lie normal
lbson was wounded during the
II war at the age of twenty. The
et passed between Hwo ribs and
ie to the heart,, spreading an artery
vein. In some way It affected his
rt tn such an extent that that or
missed one beat In every four of
Drninl hoort.
pcordlng to calculatlonH, Gibson's
rt missed 1080 beats each hour;
20 bents every twenty-four hours;
B.80O ?>uch year, and 317..ri71,600
be fifty-seven years following bis
ry.
IN NORTH RUSSIA
MttsbMrgh.-^Adnm Kldemuller. sec
Hi v of " l?ulld!ng and loan ussocla*
ii, was held l,l? hy a polite, heuvlly
led woman footpad and robbed of
lk>0'while almost within Might of his
ue. *
Oh. 1 bog your pardon," the. worn
bald she bumped Into KideinuU
le battened to pardon her, but saw
her hand u small pistol. The wa ni
ght' Issued was quiet but stern,
lemuller told detectives.
Seeping the pistol In position, she
ved closer to Kldemuller and drew
u> bis hip pocket a wallet, fairly
ging with money and checks he
) taken in at a meeting of the loan
oc!atlon<
[?ben with a smile ahe started a
iversatlon con^grnlng; the "funny
Either Pittsburgh has been having,"
>plng the revolver pressed close to
1 victim.
Eldeiuuller Was forced to Join In tho
iversatlon, he said, and after sev
1 pedestrians tad passed sfre
ched Into bis vest pocket and re
ved his watch.
Ihe unclasped this from a watcli
iln. and again continued her con*
nation about the weather.
You just keep going," she warned
lemuller as she had slipped the
tch and wallet Into a large muff.
randfather and grandson lit a peaa
hut in the city of Archangel. The
iliar looking cradle 18 .of the fa
>r Russian type," being but a
ich of a tree suspended from the
r /? '
WHISKY BEST REMEDY?
ition for Kentucky Doctors Pr?
crlbing It, Says State Hoalth
Officer.
ulsville, Ky.?Physicians In Ken
7 who prescribe whisky for ailing
nts will have to prove to the
license hoard that no other medl
Is better, or their licenses are 11a
r> be revoked, according ?o Dr. A.
cCormack. state health officer. A
Injr of physicians will he held In
iKtDn, he saldt to form a drastic
jc on the prohibition amendment
fnr as it applies to the medical
js.slon of this state. '
? American Medical society, Dr
irmnrk asserted, has gone on l?C
? believing whisky as a medicine
I t)?M essnry and wherever it could
>ed there Is Some other remedy
ly nood or better.
.otet Pension for Bravery.
>o, Jnpnn.?The Jap?oe*e rick
in who saved the llfe:of the for
mperor Nicholas of RtiMlft. when
kmpt was made to kill him on
lit to Japan as czarovltch In 1801, j
st the pcnxlon which was paid j
)r malt? yean* for that service
KtiHKtan ruler.* This la the re
t the death of the former enc
and tho Italian revolution.
olns wan attacked by a Japan
llc?>tnar^ with a saber. Interfer
y tho rlckflh iman enabled him
l?* .vith it Mli^ht wonnd: Wbtle
i - hi* pension the riekahaman
d luxury, hnt now ha* returned
work of haulloff hla riikaha.
FAMOUS IN VERSE
/imithy, Immortalized by lohQ
fellow, Still Stands.
Shop of the Village Blacksmith, s,t
Cambridge, Maae., Look* Today
Almost at It Old Wh?n the
Poet Wrote 0/ It.
. in hi* diary or October r?. isittt.
Longfellow made this note: "Wrote a
iu'w | ism I in <?i llfe-tlt Is Thr \ lllage
Blacksmith.' "
And 1 ho h"tiM? of the vlllniiu black
smith, hullt h? 1811. Htlll stands In
Cutnbrldge. covered with vines and
sought am* by tourists and lovers of
the old. although the "spreading chest
nut tree" baa Weeu cut down to tuake
room for the widening of Brattle
street.
It was the home of Dexter Pratt,
the village blacksmith, and the friend
of Longfellow, who Immortalized him
and hla smithy in verse. The Bach
elder family, who bought the place
from the heirs of Mary Walker In
1912, have restored the place to Its
former simple beauty. It stUl Ueofa
the "Sign of the Cockhorse."
Inside, the rooms are reatored with
all the qualntnesa of their original
form. As one goes In the door they
open from both aides of the femall hall
and each room has a large open fire
place. The mantels are wide and
plain, as was the fashion In the early
days, ' j
Upstairs, at the Brattle street end
of the bouse, one goes down three
steps Into the end room. You pass
through a narrow hack passage and
find two small bedrooms and back
stairs which are sharp and steep.
Dexter Pratt. Longfellow's black
smith friend, succeeded Torrey Han
cock In the Ownership of the property,
who In turn bought It from the heirs
of Thomas Brattle, who built the
house. Pratt had lived there a long
time when Longfellow came to Cam
bridge In 1880. After the death of
Dexter Pratt . In 1847, the property
passed through various hands until,
In 1870, friends bought It for Mary
Walker, an e^aped quadroon slave, a
woman of renneuient and beauty, who
had been u servant In several Cam
bridge families, and afterward taught
school In the South.
After~Ver return tp the North two
of her three children were found and
returned to her through the efforts of
General 0. O. Howard. They were then
a grown man and woman, although
when she last saw them they were
children.
While she occupied the house many
Harvard students lived there. Now,
purchased from the heirs of the es
caped slave, It has become one of the
show placfcs of Cambridge.
Longfellow. In the Knickerbocker
Magazine, In 1840. llrst Immortalized
the place. He made a 'word picture
of the village smithy and the black
smith. and also made a pen and Ink
sketch of the chestnut tree and the
smithy* The tree up to 1876 spread |
Its branches In front of the house.
" The Crumbllnfl of Caste.
India Is In the midst of one of her
greatest famines. Grain Is twice a?
high as It was In 1900, but In cplte of
this people are not dying as they did
then. ' -
A missionary gives two reasons for
the lower death rate:
In the last 20 years the people
have learned to work. Formerly one
or two members of a family supported
the rest. Now, all who are able to
work earn something, and so during
the years of plenty something has been
saved up?not much but enough to
help a little.
Another reason why India Is In a
better condition now than In 1900 Is
that the caste system Is breaking down.
Now you will And men and women of
many castes doing work w hlch for
merly was done by one caste alone.
High-caste Hindus are coming to see
that manual labor Is not a disgrace.?
World Outlook.
" 'Plywood Qlven Severe Test.
The plywood tested at the Wisconsin
forest products laboratory Is built up
In thin layers laid crosswise to one
another, and glued with water-resist
ing glue. Various protective finishes
arc applied to the wood. All materials
are subjected to every vgrlety of cli
matic temperature and moisture,
and In glue tests, piles must not sep
arate after boiling In water eight
hours, or soaking at room temperature
' fen days. The products developed find
many Important uses besides 'Mint of
making alrplafie propellers. The
woven plywood, designed as a substi
tute for linen In wing-- covering, In
? veneer about one and one-fourth tocne
and seven-eighths lm?hes wide and .01
!n<-h thick, the nnlMlied shoot lining
shout one-fifth in<*h thick.
Difficult to Learn.
-> Tho Chioexe {KK-kot dictionary con
tains no less than TO.OOO characters,
which one must lonrn In order to
claim any real familiarity with the
tunguiigo. However, nn acquaintance
with 3.000 or 4.000 symbols is all that
the average native bus. nnd It Is said
to be possible to fst't along with n vo
cabulary of 1.000.
Nowhere at Sixty Miles an Hour.
Did you ever *<-e a l?K-oiiM>tlve run
00 miles an hour ?n?l yet not g?*t any
where? 8u?h Im the prrformjin'*** ot
locomotives which cftinc r?MMiIr,.*ly to
the ' K' motive inborntf?r> <?f ib** Un'
versify ??r Illlnoi* for ?i 111*.* te*t?
on fuel ouv
VARIETY HPTC K OK UKK
Fifty Itallar* U "( nion Kate" Kor
SU)!ui Mmn In New York.
N<<\v York, N. Y.?Thin town ha* on
taste, It has taste*.' It is hii Lugo that
there is h market iu it for everything
f it mi murder to first edition*. One client
of George I>, Smith, the world's premier
Inmk buyer, has made a standing offer of
$200,000 for u book that\ he want*. Tin i.
i? at least one gang of downtown thug*
which 'is *aid to have "humped off" j
men gf cheaply &? ?iliU'..iu/l) $50 :
whh the standing rate. lf\you merely j
wanted your enruny beaten up it would!
he done as low ah $5. ^Much depended
on the scrapping quality of the eueiny.
One of the men connected with the
opium ring is quoted %a* declaring that
he iti^ being almost worked to death.
"There wa? never n better market for
dope," said he. A church has made ar
rangement* to build a twenty-story build
ing, a great part of which Is to be oc
cupied by the church auditorium and
offices. .
A broadway show which mlvertisea that
its chorus outstrips all others" is doing
a whale of a business. So is Sir Oliver
Ixxlge, scientist and 8pirituali/\--^u>,,,iK
hrt^ikmtt all iccordy for pt?.
Automobile agents are sel-Hng good? fast
er than they can deliver them. Ilible*.
have xone up in price because of the
extraordinary demand,
. A mid-town dog doctor has raised Ids
price for house calls to $5. Ladies who
tote their pets ta his office can have the
symptoms diagnosed for tnree buoks.
Oirls who do not kuow just what they
want to do in life caiKbe advised, trained
and assisted to jobs free at one'of the
city high schools.
Variety is surely the spice of life in
New York. 1
There is no doubt whatever that there
are more suckers, ranging from the 25
cent sort to those that buy thousands of.
dollars' worth of hot aid, in this town
than anywhere elfce in the world.
Every time the clock ticks one-haif
pint of bonded liquor evaporates, disap
pears in. the air. That is the official
estimate on evaporation and leakage of
the 70,000,(MX) gallons of goods in the
350 bonded warehouses of the country.
'It is estimated that $10,000-,000 will
be spent by the Canadians on automo
biles during this year. . J
Diamond Construction Makes
This Bridge Strong
Like
the
The bridge, it strong because it it supported in
every direction by sturdy diagonal braces that form
diamonds everywhere.
The battery is strong because its plates, like the
bridge, are built on the Diamond principle.
That. is why thp plates do not buckle nor lose
their active toateriat. That is why the battery is
Guaranteed for Eighteen Month*
That is why we are the official Phila
delphia Service Station.
Expert battery re-charging and repairing.
Free inspection?any battery- -any make,
any car, any time. Drop in today and let
us look at the condition of your baltery.
W. 0. Hay's Garage
South Main Street
Caitiden, - South Carolina1
The World's Largest Tire Factory
Building 30x3,30x3! and 31x4-inch Tires
Owners of small cars can enjoy the same
high relative value in Goodyear Tires that
gives utmost satisfaction to owners of big,
costly motor carriages.
They can take advantage of that tremendous
amount of equipment, skill and care employed
by Goodyear to build tires of extraordinary
worth in the 30x3r, .30x3%'* and 31x4
inch sizes. ^
They can secure these tires without waiting,
despite the enormous demand, because,
in addition to its larger sizes, Goodyeaij builds
an average of 20,000 a day in the world's
largest tire factory devoted to the three
sizes mentioned.
%
If you own a Ford, Chevrolet, Dort, Maxwell,
or any other car using one of these sizes, go
to the nearest Goodyear Service Station
Dealer for Goodyear Tires and Goodyear
Heavy Tourist Tubes.
30 x Croodyatl Double-Cure $ ^ /"\00
Fabric, All-Weather Trrari. sLt\Iz
^bH^nGe^Tfre^gl^r: $17^
Good yea* Heavy Tourist Tubes are thick, strong tubes that
reinforce casings properly. Why risk a good casing with a
cheap' tube? Goodyear Heavy Tourist Tube* cost lime more
than tubes of less merit. 30x3Vi in water- $ 1QO
proof bag W