The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, February 20, 1920, Image 16
HAD QUIET YEARS
fe> ? ? 11,1,
Chief Executives Who Lived Long
After Retirement.
Of Them All, the First John Adam*
Hold* the Record, Twenty.Flva
Year*?Wilton - the Oldeet
8lnce Buchanan.
President WHsttfi;. who whs sixty*
three year* <?U| December 2H, I* the
oldest i)9iiit to occupy the While IIoiihh
alnre Rucluinun. who entered It ui
alxtyslx hihI retired at seventy.
Anyone who run.* over tile history
of the. presidency will he struck hy the
rise sad full of the age at which prea
identM huve entered nod retired from
oflice. and the varying length of time
hy which they have outlived retire
ment, remarks the Philadelphia I tec*
nrd. Of the llrst eight presidents, all
|>ut (wo of whoiu served two terms
each. six retired when past sixiy-ttvc,
voe of them, Jackson, ? /ithfri 11 duya
of his seventieth birthday. The tirst
Adams retired at sixty-two, Van Hur*
en at fifty-nine, Of theso eight, four
lived to he pant eighty. One passed
seventy-eight and another passed sev
enty-nine. Washington alone of thein
fa I in I to reach seventy. The tirst
Adams outlived retirement by twenty*
flve years and Jefferson, -tfho died on
ttke same day with Adatus, July 4,
1820, the fiftieth anniversary of In
dependence, outlived retirement sev
enteen years, Monroe, who retired
at sixty-seven, died July 4, 18.'U.
Since Jackson, no president except
Wilson, Buchanan. Taylor and the
first Harrison has sat III the White i
IIoumi when sixty-due years old. Of
all who have served in that l.l?Yie, ten
retired or died in office before reach*
inn IIfly seven, and only two outlived
retirei/ieni twenty years. Not one j
SSved to in- eighty, and onl.v liv*.
?Vi^sed seventy. I'oik outlived retire- j
aa--nt less than six months. and died ?
M titty-tour, younger than an> other j
l'X-|a*esident. presidents In the!
l$-i| flft,\ years have lived to see three ;
Of thefr sit i-t'xsorx. and sex era! have \
not seen two. tliouuh I'ieree -saw four.
Although the average length of hu
man life in the Cnilejl States is t
greater than It was w hen- the repub
lic was young. distinguished public .
men have hardly shared In the Immiij
of ienutheneii da\N. The presidency. ,
indt e^ while never exactly what
everyday folk call a soft snap. was ;
a far le**- exacting ojllce In early !
times than it Is toila.v. The Napoleon- i
lc war nave Washington, the first ;
Adonis, Jefferson and Madison a goo<"
many trying hours, but they ail had
their periods of respite. Washington,
wherever he happened to be as chief
magistrate, managed to escape now j
and again to the spacious and dig- !
nlfled quiet of Mount Vernon. John j
Adorns, the tirst president to occu
py the White House at Washington, '
the domestic arrangements of which <
appeared "impossible" to his thrifty j
and orderly Now England wife, often 1
returned tn the quiet of his home at
Qulncy. Jefferson found repose nt
Monticello. and Jackson made the
long Journey to the Hermitage, where
rest awaited his coming.
All of the early presidents were (
safe from Intrusive messages hy tel- j
egrapli or telephone, and they re- I
eel veil mall in no masses as now daily ?
pursue a president on vacation. Even 1
l'olk could not have been much ills- j
turhed by the stammering words of j
Morse's new-fangled messenger, for ;
it was publicly used for the tirst time
In reporting to congress the result of
the Democratic national convention
at Haiti more in 1844.
Women Selling TJveir Jewels.
It scorns to ho tub fashion Just now
for women with, plenty of inonoy and
honvlly stocked with Jewel cases to
yell nny rich and rare *? tones that thoy
may possess, not because they need
fche money hnt simply because thoy
like the excitement of getting a big
flprure for articles that they probably
seldom wear and certainly do not
act tin lly miss.
It Is reported that the woman who
Is now Mm. Jark (.'.llliatt and was pre
viously tin* widow of tlie eccentric
tnarquis of Anglesey. recently went
through her Jewel < bests and collected
quantities of old-fashioned, quaintly
set gems which slu> s<*it off to be sold
by auction.
The result was a very .satisfactory
sum of money that ran well fnto flvs
figures, with which she purchased a
beautiful little estate, where she Is In
dulging In her pet fuel of chicken tann
ing.
And He Deserved
Aftt-r a ruthless process of rejection
there were five applicants for the tost
of errand hoy left for the head of the
firm himself to Interview.
It <> as one of his flippant mornings,
and he sought to amuse himself by
n*k ng the eager hoys puzzling and
quite irrelevant questions t'? test their
general knowledge.
"H<>\\ far away from the earth Is
the North Star?" was the question
he fired at the third shiny-faced
younu'stPr.
"I'm sorry I ninnof five you the ex
act figure on hand, sir. wa* the reply,
"but on a rough estimate I should
say that It Is far enough away no'
lo Interfere with me running er
rands."
He got the post.
Japan's Ships.
Ob August 1. Japan had h total of
724 Ta?els of ntor> than 1,000 groaa
tons fa eoa?t nn<l oc*an trade.
WOMAN EARNjU? HER LIBERTY
Unlooked For Suffering Endured by
ltow4way Who Wa? Making Hor
Way to Froodom.
Gone woo the Bosporus und in Its
place we ww the I6|<]||) wuters of the
Black sea. From the porthole of
Josef's cabin .we could distinguish
many fall?# west of u* the coust llu%>
of the country in which White hud
spent three yen?. according to Copt.
Alan Bolt's "Stowuwoys, Inc.," in Aslu.
Feeder soon left us, for he hud to
bring other stowaways to the light of
day. From every concealed cranny of
the vessel men aud women, almost as
light-hearted aw ourselves at deliver
ance from the Turks, were coining Iuto
the open. ~~
One of the stowaways. a pa**lH>rt?
less woman whom the aged captain
wan taking with him to Odessa, did
not rejoice for some time. As hiding
place for her the old tnau had chosen
a deep locker In Ida chartrooui ou the
bridge, There ahe had remained for
the laat two Uaya. Now, Kosa, the
kitchen wench, knew nothing of the
cuptulu's lady. Tliat morning, not
Wishing to send her own .particular
stowawuy?a Turkish deserter with
coal-blackened face, untrimmed beard
and decidedly odorous clothes?buck
to the bunkers, where he had spent
the previous day, she thought of tho
locker as a teidjnirary home. Dump
ing hliu Inalde the locker, ahe faa
tenet! the lid aud ran back to the
kitchen. The Turkish, deserter landed
with some violence on tho captain's
lady and both received a bud fright aa
they clutched at each other in the
darkness. Yet the lid could not be're
moved from t,he Inside and the wom
an's screams were unheard outside the
little room. The air In the unveutl*
lated locker grew more and more
stuffy, Finally the woman fulnted.
The Turk, tired after a long spell of
cramped wakefulness In the bunkers
and the kitchen, composed himself
philosophically and went to sleep.
AGED MAN CLAIMS RECORP
New Hampshire Nonogenarlan Still
Able to Swing Ax Both Lustily
and Expertly.
Friends of Frank Mozrall, ninety,
of Franklin, N. II.. claim that he Is the
champion woodehopper of his ajje In
tlTe New England states. Despite his
near approach to the century mark he
Is able to swing an ax with the best ol'
the choppers of the New Hampshire
woods, those who know him best say.
Mr. Moarall was formerly a hotel
man. Since his retirement a favorite
pastime of his has been to walk a dis
tance of live miles from the home of
his niece to a wood lot and there chop
wood. It is claimed that he cut almost'
Hve cords of wood in a week, which Is
considered a record for a man any
where near Mr. Mo/,rail's age.
Mr. Mozrall helped to build the first
bridle path from the Profile to the
summit of Mount Lafayette, and was
one of the best-known guides In the
mountains years ago. lie has guided
some of the best-known people of the
country in their explorations of the
White mountains. It Is only recently
that he has come into fame as a wood
chopper. \
Mr. Mozrall's tncfcnory. is most excel
lent and his general health Is excep
tionally good for a man of his ad
vanced yours.?Boston I'ost.
*
Synthetic Vinegar and Acetic Acid.
Acetic acid Is now used in great
quantities in making acetate of cel
lulose for airships. Before the war
this was obtained by distilling wood,
but Tt no longer suffices. A synthetic
way of making acetic acid was dis
covered and now the price is much
lower than it used to be.
The process Is simple; It calls for the
production of acetic aldehyde by a re
action of water with acetylene, and the
oxidation of the aldehyde gives acetic
acid.
Three French companies are now
using this process and La Nature says
they bid fair to drive the distillers of
wood out of the field, even planning to
produce a synthetic vinegar thrtt shall
be much cheaper than the natural ar
ticle.
Strong Ptea.
The local scout executive had vis- ;
ited the school for the purpose of or
ganizing a troop. Ha talked to the
hoys for a time and then taught them 1
several yells, some for their school
and .some for the principal, all of
which made a decided hit with them.
A few days later they unked their I
teacher to invite him hack, but she
refused, pleading that their time was
needed for their regular school work. |
Another few days and their request
wns repeated, only to meet with the.
same refusal and the same excuse.
I; \v;ts almost a week before the
subject was again mentioned, and j
then the genius of the class tfld It.
"Say, Miss W he began,
"don't yon feel like yon would like to
be veiled for again?"
Remarkable!
An amorous young man met a math
ematical maid at the Christmas dance.
*lle was as keen on flirtations as she
was on problems, and he asked her. In
the conservatory, to tell him her age.
"How old am I?" replied the girl
"Well, when I am as old ns my sister
was when she was as old as I will be
when she Is twice as old as I then wat
I will be twice as old as 1 now am."
The young man, easer to please
Idokei ?v her In polite astonishment
and exclaimed ;
"Never I*
STUCK TO HIS CAR
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Yankee Kent Long Vigil in Deep;
Baltic Snow.
?eldier Abandoned by British Officer
When Auto Fulled to Buck
j Drift
Par's.? Klrhiml Kelly of !!l Paso,
Tex., one of the American dou^h'-nya
recently recalled from duty In iliu
BfilflC country, now. Ik In a hospital
In Paris nursing frost hltes and restor
ing lost tissue as the mailt of a lone
vigil with his car In n Baltic snow
drift. Purlng his tour of duty In the
Baltic. Kelty wjts assigned to drive
for a Hrltlsh officer one of the hlg
yellow American cars. which. It Is sup
posed. can go anywhere. One of the
laat ihiii;:-. his superiors told Kelly
was "?tick to your car whatever hap
pens." #v
What happened, was that during
the drive In the rural districts near
lUga, Kelly's machine, officer and all,
became stalled, In a anowdrlft. No
horsepower or Ingenuity was able to
budge It. The Hrltlsh officer with
his adjutant fought their way to the
neareat town for aid, leaving Kelly
alone to buck the snowdrift. For some
reasoq the officer failed to return..
Though Kelly might have surren
dered and sought shelter, he remem
bered his Instructions and gamely
stuck. Night fell; so did more snow.
No one came along the road and no
twinkling light told of the neameaa
of human beings. Kelly, hungry and
forlorn, curled himself up In the car
and slept. While awake he solaced
himself \Vith cigarettes. 1
He spent a second day In the same
drift, determined to stick. That day
a peasant came along in a sledge and
towed Kelly to a nearby village and
there he left the car, returning to his
base by train, later passing through
Berlin to Paris. Now he is spending
his off hours looking for that "blamed"
British officer.
SAVES MUCH HARD WORK
It is a well known- fact that water
will not run uphill and thq owner of
this North Carolina home found that
tolling up a steep slope of several hun
dred feet with buckets of water sev
eral times a day was a hack breaking
Job. So he turne'd nn Inventive mind
to work and stretched a cable from
the spring to a windlass built against
a tree near his home. A pulley ar
rangement permits the bucket to trav
el down the cable to the spring, where
It fills Itself and then Is drawn uphill
to the house by tbe windlass.
"VIRGIN" WAS ONLY SHADOW
Priest Solved a Mystery Which
Caused^ Exc tement Among
French Villagers.
i Metz.?Excitement among the peo
ple of Noveant, a small vlllifge near
here, over the supposed appearance
of the Virgin near a church yard,
has been calmed by an Investigation
l conducted by religions authorities. It
was said tbe apparition nppeared at
a certain time each day, seeming
to stand on the steps of a little villa.
Father Bentz posted himself one
evening at a point where others said
they bad seen the Virgin, and at once
solved the mystery. He found two
trees some distance awny which. Just
at sunset, cast a shadow presenting
a clear outline of a statue of the Ma
donna. the resemblance being striking.
Bishop Rueh of Metz, commenting
- on?the case.?sa+d?when tt was ex
I plained to him :
"We must not expect too many nlr
' acles. We have Just witnessed < ne
; of the greatest miracles of all times
?tbe return of Lorraine to France
I ?and we can afford to wait a little
' while for another."
Strike Over Price of Blood.
New York.?Men who sell their
blood for transfusion In operations
struck for more money at the Flower
j hospital They demanded for a
? pint of blood. more than they re
i reived two weeks ago, since which
) time the price has increased to $40.
, Student nurses responded as strlke
' breakers. Ten minutes after the
strike sturted one nurse was o.i the
i operating tuble as h surgeon performed
' a transfusion operation and tlie hos
I pltal received a pint cf bl?x?d fr?e
j Two hours Inter the nurse was attend
Ing ?. < ''.ifc. Th?- *1rlfce wn* broken.
i'rnfeHsiiiiiiil 5jI?mm1 donors were on to*
Job next iIh) it the old wage.
^4 new Elegance of Line
Seen in this Chalmers
rMS a car very easy to look at; and there'sa wealth of com'
fort in those new type seat cushion^ of this Chalmers.
Besides, this new elegance ha** in no way penalized roominess.
At the radiator the lines are high. At the rear they arc low.
From the cowl back the top line of the coach is low, but
as you sit in the car you have a feeling this line is high.
Once in motion this position becomes even more alluring ^s
you cling to the seat, note the absence of sidesway, and feel
that the car is hugging the road closely.
Particularly is your enthusiasm stirred when you observe the
ease of the. engine's effort, its intense silence, the quick response
when you turn loose the power stream.
You tacitly pay a co'n\p!i'i?^nt to Hot Spot and Ram's horn,
for they have Fletcherizeu the raw gas, utilized the last drop of
power that nature stored away. ? -
And you admire a Chalmers the more for it, for in addition
to its beauty of action, it is arrayed in new garments that are
refreshing to a degree.'
Ouaiity Firgl
George T. Little
Camden, S. C. -
The mechanics in our sh p who will adjust or repair your Ford car, or
Ford truck, are men who understand tve Ford mechanism and who know
Ford way of making repairs and replac ements. They are experienced 5^(4
mechanics and because of their familiarity with Ford cars call do your work
more intelligently and more quickly th?n can other skilled mechanics who lack
Ford experience. _j!
The work on your car will be done in a completely equipped shop
timesaving Ford tools and equipment. Whether ybur car needs an adjustfflCw.
nr a thorough overhauling, ,wp nrp prepared to give you careful and prolPPj
service. And nothing but the Genuine Ford-made parts and replacements Wj
be used. When the work is finished, the charge will b6 the reasonable, 8tw^
dard Ford prices.
m.F'1 -
Our stock of Ford parts is alw ays complete. And our Ford garage *
Ford mechanics are at your service at any time. We are authorized Wra
Dealers and not only repair Fords buf also sell them. Drive in or PW*J
Be fair to your car and pocketbook.
Kershaw Motor Go.
Phone 140 Camden,'
'Mr,