The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 30, 1920, Image 11
A TAG DAY
ROMANCE ^
ff^SSIE E. SHERWIM
u ilfty ia ?w city *?<! *
I It *?? <a* untie* attire whl]i* J>?at
L?n< t5"'1 . showed signs of ihend
B*? rtUillg^, l ?t the corner o|
ML ?* a cardboard ill Jftft
PWh.r^ .nation iu the other.
Lad. H N K xutl a* to face and
r: j^lss " ? mm
Ct, J?! w? one of Hie tait
Ehw< ""'? rr l.i "."-I '??"? <*?
K The h,u"? 'r?? Horn* lofr*
EU '"""""kind he?H?!<lBW "a,,
E vrttb inotwrl* luter
EprwK'"*41 " .. .
E?fri ^ veaP tho insignia of the
| -you wll8tt knoW yOU art out- of us
?if* (U'rtf
p*1""'""',!,.- true Indjr uiuibtrunlve
fiW <hP" i " card into <"??
m "row<'
E*W t?i >'><?? of Ver
I * rVmirt 1>er lonettACM ? l""
I"*" ll'? dreariness ami
|?ni I " . her. <?ut ?(
? ???** ''"y' "'r
I* T he cheap little room she oc
?!! 7 she was faint and weak,
i \i..? good cause!" hulled a
l"]h p, ! voice, and the abstracted
rri<k # n ?flff and flower drawn from
|T,nla felt, tag ? not& BUb6tltuted.
Eu'deJedlv she looked up to note
I ?iUnK genial young man. For a
IS? he'aeemed quite magnetized
foment ne t goulfui eyes.
thftt lovely m ?
I .. ? ?noke to a companion.
Ikurry. be M tt crle(| verda.
PP^a ?" ?,e
Item'1# near restaurant ft tanlfttizl").
te o( fowl. ?>>? turned -touwrda-tt
ESv Then she ran awny ,
JttSL* temptation. She pushed aside i
B? Lining '.multitude, staling ahead
It trv and discover some tagger t
|'?hom ,1,0 couia deliver the dollar. She
B m way ov<"> ?<?"> strenuous
MlLi *he mod? out the young
r' ' I Eiven' her the money.
"he neured him. - She put out
, tand to holt him. Ho was ?'rlly
mUs W? "<,s w,th the "
"^please!" panted Verda, extend
IK the bank nolo. "I am not a as
?r. 1 had n0 rl*m t0 ta 1 1o_
There she wavered, there ft sudden
flu ca mo, across her vision She
waved weakly. Bryan Latham
nit her In his arms as conscious
Kss deserted her.
"Do not move, dear," spoke a
tie wonianly voice many hours later
ud Verda stared vaguely about her.
She lay upon a couch In the rest room
?( ?n oftloe building. A screen was
Nt aeross a comer of the- apartment
ud the matron stood regarding lier
with a smile. "Will you not teH me
somethlnp about yourself?" she asked.
And Verda told her all of her pover
ty, of the flower and tag and of her
toptatlon to assuage her hunger.
The matron wound a sympathizing
inn about her. There wera tears of
tenderness and pity In ,her eyes. She
went away and returned with a server
totalnlng a dainty, but strengthening
wpaRt. the first food of which Verda
bad partaken for a night and a day.
it was Mr. Latham1 who left you
the woman told her, "a true
kind-hearted gentleman, If there ever
[tts one. He was very anxious and ln
ilwsted. He seemed to surmise that
^bo were in trouble. He has telephoned
twice about you and wishes you to re
nin here until business hours are
Imr."
"I am Mr. Latham's sister," inter
rupted an intruding voice, and a well
,4res?pd lady appeared Just beyond the
tdge of the screen. "Is this the young
Udy my brother told me about? He
telephoned me and if f can be of any
tervlee to yon lot me be youi; friend."
She was married and had a family
?t two little children, and when the
??tron had taken her aside and talked
*ith her In low tones Mrs. Warner
Warned to the side of Verda.
^Too poor friendless dove!" ahe
Murmured. klssliiR her. "We are go
tog to mend some of the injustice of
life that ha* fallen to your lot. My
into Is below nnd when you are strong
wough to accompany me we will soon
jtove yon under a roof where you
ttnst welcome a long, perfect rest."
Verda I. nnd retired that night the
: guest * of h true sonled woman with
plenty of spare for those she could
Mp. and l'I?kI to bestow It. She did
'?nt mention her brother until several
toy* later, nnd by that time her little
we* had learner) to Idolize the stran
? fe: whose urn 1 1 tiide nnd Joy made her
?Iotp t hf whole voHd. ?
Very tmobTruslvely Bryan Latham
; e?nie to the bouse at last. ' He did
?tot obtrude himself upon ye_rdHi bnt :
p* eonld not conceal an Interest her
. ^ery time he met the glance of the
pleading: eyes that had thrilled him
| from the first
w?s just ? month ngo that y<vp
Into my life." he told Verda
. when tbev were alone together one
?"?ejiin ar. "See bow I chertfch th* mem
*7" he added, nnd he drew ont a llt
^ Wank '.io<?k and within It lay the
, ?nA jne faded carnation.
; ^ when their wedding ??
?in. It wns two of tha little W?r
f *r ;hr ,ren -*-ho scattered the name
i "WrKifnl fluwer In the patlt'^f btHl
I?* room.
IMPORTING THK PRIMITIVE
Importance of Cove In the Election
Population
IY\v | *top to think \vh?t m
polyglot .)h)|>iiIh tioii wo have out of
which to make Americans, or, what
la far more to t'he point. how much of
(jt.. ulmltlvc wo have Imported into
our country, iu our quest for cheap
labor.
? *ptie blacks were - brought by the
slave trader from the' jungles of Af?
rlca, where they were ?hunted and
herded aa . buffalo oil the western
plains were driven over precipice* for
their hide* and -tongues. All thl* was
done for money, and those who brought
tilie thousands from the Dark <\>ntl
uent did It for gain and with neither
a thought nor n OR re a\u?ut the rights
of t'he blacks of the inevitable influemv
upon our population* j,
In the early days of emigration the
best of the Northern Kuro|>enn peo
ples came here to OUlld houic.y and
better their conditions. The Infusion
wii^ fine. They were poor hut "chock
full of day's works." and tJhey dhi their
share in developing agriculturally the
north and west a* the slaves bad do
voiopOd the south. ? t? * ?
I\ut when we begHn to imixtrt "un
skilled labor," not for- cUltseiifttilp but
f(>r t*he money we could make 611 1
of it, then we began to bring in the
primitive just as truly as we did in
raiding the juugles of Africa.' Our
purposes were primitive In both cases.
Thl* is what ha* notv only made a
distant social cleavage among us. but
it la what has split labor iuto two
camps, fhe one Ainericou, the otfier
essentially primitive. It ?not Indeed
Ismaelltlc. It Is this reversion to the
primitive tlm-t Is making most of our
trouble, for. unfortunately .there Is
much of the primitive in all of us, and
that Is what Is upiKTiuost. in society,
everywhere just now.
i*l ?ove - to- -rthpw. Improvidence, ?diaju*.
clluntfon to work except as forced by
necessity, lack of ambition and a de
finite purpose In life ? all this is prim
itive; and when It has been long
enough iu the ascendancy It will force
Final Discharge
Notice is hereby given thut one
month from this date, 011 Frldaj*, July
3dth, 1920, I will make to the Probate
Court of Kershaw County my final
retnrij. as Administ rotor of the estate
of George W. MJcLaln, deceased, and
on the same date 1 will apply to the
said Court for a final discharge as
said Administrator.
JOHN D. McLAIN, Administrator.
FINAL DISCHARGR
Notice is hereby given that one
mouth from this date, 6n Saturday,
August 2Kth. 1920, I will make to the
Probate Court of Kershaw County my
final return as Administrator of the
estate of "Stephen F. Hough, deceased,
and on the same" date I witl apply to
the said- Court for a final discharge
as said Administrator.
T. B. FliBTCHEtt,
Administrator.
Camden, ?H., C., July 24th, 1920.
society as n whole to (he basis of bare
existence, which Is i?too primitive, as
Ik the law of ?etf-presefvatlou, which
Is dangerou*ly prevalent now.
If we do not waat to wreck our lu
stltbtlbns we have need to pay aome
reasonable attention not ab much to
the race or the language a* to the
wt?K k that is shlpi>ed In. No stockman
con hi ahow with success at fh?t. /airs If
hi* herd* were suffering continual In
fualona of primitive strains, with no
bodj looking after the queallon of con
sequences.
We look upon education as a con
servation of Americanism, and we talk
much about the saving .grace of public
opinion. But U la a? fair question to
ask of importations, "How much ??lu
cation can you take and what will you
do with It" Just aa it la asked. 44 What
after all. is the public?" N
There are men in the world -thou
sands of theui lu everfv country- -who
?belong iu the Stone Age, for that is
wheiv I hey are actually living, what
ever the language they speak or the
form of government they1 live under,
and it Is a fair question as to What
tyi?ea will blend well with Americans
ideals and what will not.
Whon David had trouble with, his
?neighbors he punished? them witti n
great slaughter, which wan bad enough.
Hnt when Solomon fa<vd diplomatic
difficulty with a neighboring king, he
promptly proposed and generally' eon
traded marriage with bis daughter.
So was peace assured ? until all his
wivej got to quarrollng with men and
among themselves about their various
gods and their many religions. Tbw*
did Solomon fall in bis attempt to lie
all things to all men ? and women ?
and his kingdom split ? split on the
rock of paganism.
And that rook will either ftpllt or
pu.lverlze any1 i>eople. There la a lim
it to which any race can Import a
primitive slock ami liapo to amalgam
ate It, and that amalgamation, even
when" Hucceasru l, has its " influence, as
every good stockman knows.
Here lleth a lesson for those who
may be tempted In the coming days
When we shall feel as never before the
shortage of unskilled labor and the
ducats ','t'h at could be made out of a
shipload of huskies brought from no
body know where or cares how, so
1/mg as the often renewed supply of
"common labor" is kept up.
David was a fighter, but be kept bis
soul. Solomon was a diplomat and an
opportunist, but he lost his ideals ami '
ultimately fell out even with his own]
family. If will bo so with us if we j
import the primitive type in order to ;
make fortunes t^e more rapidly or t<?!
avoid certain disagreeable tasks.
America will be Inhabited by Ameri
cans, whatever that may mean, but
the kind of Americans we shall have'j
will depend upon whether we draw tibe<(
lino against the (primitive types that,
shlll linger in the races, and that in
turn will depend upon: the extent tof
which we are willing to sacrifice our,
The Best
of
Health
Both of these menjenjoy the
best of health ? the" man on
the girder because of his act;
ive out-of-door job, the man
at the, desk by a different
means. He keeps fit by atten
tion to personal nygiene ? eats
"the right sort of food, gets a
certain amount of exercise,
but particularly? -mtfkes cer
tain of securing regular bowel
"movements.
Nujol helps him,
Nujol work? o?n an entirely
new principle.
Instead of forcing or irritating
the system, it simply softens the
food waste . This enables the
many tiny muscles in the walls
of the intestines, contracting
and expanding in their normal
way , to squeeze the food waste
along so that it passes natur
ally out of the system.
Nujol thus prevents constipa
tion because it helps Nature
-maintain easy , thorough kg&el
movements at regular inter
vals?the healthiest habit in
the world.
Nujol is absolutely harmless
and pleasant to take. Try it.
Nujol is sold by all druggists in sealed bottles only, bearing Nujol trade
tnark. Write Nujol Laboratories, Standard Oil Co (New Jersey ),
50 Broadway, New York, for ^booklet, "Thirty Feet of Danger'*.
The Modern Method of Treating an Old jComfilaint
For
Constipation
own souls for money or to avoid cer
tain disagreeable Jobs known as' com
mon labor, like farming, for example,
as it rests In the popular mind,
Whoever does the common labor of
a country will ultimately pdssess Its
lands and Its Industries, and In time
determine tlie level of society.
. It is not ancestry, it is not race ; It
is not language; it 1m not even reli
gion : but it is the imported tyi>e that
will ultimately fix the destiny of Amdr
iea. For this reason we have had
enough of Hie primitive.? nf-ountry Oen
1 1< mi uui.
Edgar P, Jone?, a young white man
wax killed at the Atlantic Coast. Line
Hajllroad eroswdng, " one mile below M
loree, last night by train No. 42, run
ning from I'reghall ln*o Orangeburg.
m 11 Sag It Does!
I*
good drink, like *g<?l game,
brings a sniile of satisfaction.
With no bed after- effect*