The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 13, 1920, Image 11
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BatP Known to Su?6umb to.
pominlne Wll?-*?ptalii KlOd
Among *? Number.
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If ?ncl?n? twite* ?i..i
JdUlooi coocernln* famous "knl?hu
?th? rotd* way &? believed, have.
* j>een polite to ladles ; but pirates.
.Nevertheless, the kte KIImv
kth Christopher* Hobsoo In her de
Shtful "Recollections of, a Happy
life." relates an Instance of ?? polite
late who not only spared one of her
fnceitresaea from molestation? but
Lde her a valuable present. To be
tan, the lady lu the case, who was
Mirs John Wop Gardiner of Gardiner's
Stand made tho first polite advances,
aad the pirate, who was none other
than the notorious Capi. Kftld hliuself,
merely reciprocated in kind.
The owner of the island was absent
when jSldd landed upon It. nod Mrs.
Gardiner, terrified but keeping her wits
about her, invited the formidable free
booter to dinner In the hope of placat
ing him. Be accepted, and she so
wisely ?nd "illly fed or charmed him.
or both, that he later sent to her two
rich gifts, both of which are still pre
served by her descendants: the "Kldd
pitcher," now strengthened by a silver
band bearing an Inscription recording
Its history, and the "Kldd blanket," a
piece of superb embroidery two yards
: iong( in crimson, green and gold. When
the pitcher was presented, It was full
of rare East Indian sweetmeats; the
blanket Is sometimes called the "Kldd
altar cloth," since It was presumably
stolen from a South American, or Mexi
can church In some piratical raid.
I; Among the most famous names In
tb? reprehensible but picturesque, roll
of British highwaymen Is that of
Claude Duval, who, along with his
French name, possessed a dash of
French politeness, at least toward the
fair aad easily frightened afex. He Is
reputed on varlous occasJons to nave"
spared pretty ladles their rings or
lockets, If they begged him wlnnlngly
enough, or had tflfc art, which one not
able belle of his era professed such a
useful one to a woman, of "being able
to Weep movingly, and that without
Streaking of Cheeks, of Redning of
Nose, but soe onely that 6rate Teares
of Pure Crlstall Slide softely from Lids
to Chinne, Like as Dew Droppes upon
i Rose." His most notable Concession
to feminine charm was not, however,
a complete surrender: it was a bar
gain. The lovely lady with whom It
was made was promised Immunity for
all her rich Jewels, If she Vvould but
k descend from the coach and forthwith
dance a coranto on the heath, with the
^ gallant and graceful Claude for her
? partner? a condition with which she
readily compiled.
r A "knight of the road," of less note
than Duval ? Indeed, quite a minor,
i modest figure In the annals of crime ?
nevertheless figured 'magnanimously ln(
an old, broad-sheet ballad, In which he
assisted, instead of despoiling, a lady
h In distress. She was, the story re
lates, the poor but beautiful widow of
a riotous young nobleman just killed
In a duel. Although of gentle blood,
?he was beneath him In rank, and the
match had been secret. When the
coach was held up she was on her way
to seek out her husband's parents and
ask their forgiveness and protection
for herself and her .baby boy. All she
had to prove her^case was her weddlq#
ring and her certificate of marriage,
penned nnd signed In miniature and
carried in a locket round her neck.
When those two precious trinkets were
demanded at the point of a pistol, she
was in despair; but the robber, hear
ing her story, was moved to pity.
n? (Ave her back her amfcll cold rlns,
He put It bar flnrar on;
Sara, V*our? Rnd mine and youm again.
Tbartch hardly It ?U won."
Be i?y? her baok bar colden locket;
Sara, "Now think w*ll of jne,"
- AM cold and rtfblea to 1111 bir fockat?
"O thanks, kind alrl" aaya ah*.
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If the grateful pocketing of such
dubious gold and rubies by an Innocent
snd lovely heroine in distress seems
somewhat strange, the reader must re
member that broad-sheet ballads of the
road are concerned only wlfh glorifica
tion of their highwaymen heroes; ^ con
sistency, conscience and the heroines
themselves are alike unimportant and
incidental.? Youth's Companion.
Not Dead Ones.
. I was using my seven passenger
touring car to help a friend who was
ruining a bus line, but who was tem
porarily short of cars. We vtfs mak
ing certain routes and ' had on onr
windshields cards giving our places
of destination. I was suddenly tailed
from my regular route to talcs a
couple to the minister to be married.
As we were going up the. atreet, with
the bride adorned with her wlitte well
?nd the groom In his best suit, both
sitting in back, I noticed that many
ws met were convulsed with laughter.
I didn't realise the canae until T
Pitched the parsonage and found that
1 had failed to ram ova from the wind
shield the sign : "Thla car to the cem
stary." ? Exchange.
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British Columbian Export#. ,,
Advances noted In practically at)
fa principal ttema made up an to*
***** of |19.MMffO, occurring In the
of the declared ax porta from
?jfitoria." Brttlah Columbia, to tbe
"tit* Statea during 1*19, aa com
being 987,291,706, and fOMfcdr
*8 1, iftig .nd mi, respectively, t '
OANOteS OF COLONIAL TIMES
Women In ths Country** Curly History
Evidently Had No Monopoly ft
"Fine Foath.ro."
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Tbo Kfntl'ttUlOU "of a long-past day
ye*n am lets particular In regard to
their costume than are their auccea*
era of the present time, a fact that la
manifest from certain records of colo*
'filal times. Governor Hutchinson's or
der for clothea, i >nt to Ixmden to be
?Mad, la a telltale and instructive pa
per. We may suppose the garments
to have arrived by the time of fee Ro*>
tou massacre, and can easily guess
how the handsome man of fifty nine
must nave looked as he achemed and
argued HKulnat his rebellious people.
"October ft, 17OT. To Mr. feter I.elk?i :
desire to have you fend me a
blue cloth waistcoat trimmed with the
same color lined, the skirts and fac
ings with efflgeen, and body linnen
to match the last blu^cloath I had
from .you :?rtwo " under-wnlstcoats or
camlaola of wurm awanadowu, without
aleevea faced with some cheiip silk or
shagg, A 8Ult of clouths full-trimmed,
the cloath something llke*the an closed,
only more of a gray mixture, gold but
tons and hole, but little wadding lined
with efflgeen.
MI like a wcought or flowered or
embroidered hole something though
not /exactly like the hole upon the
cloaths of which the pattern la Inclosed ;
or It frogs are worn, I think they look
well on the coat; but If It be quite lr
regular, I would have neither one nor
the other, but such a hole and button
as aye worn. I know d laced coat la 1
more the mode, but this la; too gay for
me.
"A pair of wosted breeches to match
the color, and a pair ofr black velvet
breeches, the breeches with leather lin
ings. Let them come by the first
ship. I
"P. S. If there be no opportunity be*
fore February, omit the camlsols. and
send a greene waistcoat, the forebod
les a strong corded silk ? not the cor
duasoy, but looks 'something like It ?
.the sleeves and bodies sagathee or
other thin stuff* body lined with I
linnen, skirts silk. My last cloath'
were rather small In the armhotos, but
the^ alterations must be HttUv next to |
nothing." ? Philadelphia Record.
Romance of Diamonds.
Fiction in Its maddest moods nev
er lavented romance more bewilder
ing; than the stories of the great dia
monds of India, says Popular Sci
ence Monthly. For these bnubles wars
have been waged, nations devastated,
thrones and dynasties overturned, men
slaughtered -by tens of thousands.
The fame of the Great Mogul lured
Nadir Shah to the Hack of Delhi. De
sire to possess the Koh-l-Noor was
woven Into the complex motives that
led Aurung^zeb to deluge India , with
blood, slay his three brothers, and de
ttfronfe and Imprison Shaft Jehan, his
father. , V
The Orloff. stolen from the eye of a
temple Idol and sold overseas, was
presented to Catherine of Russia by
her princely paramour to patch a lov
ers* quarrel. Swallowed by a faith
ful serving man to save it from rob
bers who slew him, the Sancy was
Sliced from his stomach tb adorn the
royal person of Henry of France and
Navarre.
Washington as Father of the Navy.
An article In the United States Na
val Institute of last December by Ed
gar Stanton Maclay risked the ques
tion, Was Qeorge Washington the fath
er of the United States navy? Accord
ing to this authority, before John Paul
Jones or John Barry received their
commissions, or, Indeed, before con
gress decide^ to establish a naVy.
Washington issued commissions on
September 2, 1775, to armed craft for
the . expressed purpose of catching
enemy transports and cruisers. Wash
ington borrowed the armed schooners
Lynch and Frpnklln from Massachu
setts, and commissioned them to cruise
against the enemy. He also commis
sioned other armed craft, including
the Lee. It was not until October
13th, 1775. that congress appointed its
first naval committee, and not until the
18th of December that congress au
thorized the construction of the firxt
vessels of our navy. ? Scientific Amer
ican.
The Honeymoon Disappearing.
The real, old-fashioned honeymoon,
a four weeks' Isolation near some fa
vorite holiday resort seems to be a
thing of the past In the old land, says
-the Montreal Herald. War killed the
custom as It has killed many others.
What Interferes with Its re-establlsh
ment Is not only feeling against it as
a waste of time, but also the high
cost of traveling and the expense of
holiday hotels, plijs the dlfBcolty of
finding quarters. The asplratloo of
the young people of today is to settle
dOwn Id the home they have managed,
by dint of struggling, to secure, sr to
set to work to find something nearer
the Ideal than hotel or boarding-house
accommodation. In other cases a
week end at the seaside or a few days
at a quiet hostelry found and kept so*
cret from others, as a good center for
golf and country walks, suffices.
MMiemloal Glass. -
During the last half of the year 1017
wo exported Mass ware for the first
time in oar history and for iSflB our
totml "production was valued at $2,
744, mere than double what we used
when we had to lMvy<U Abroad. At
the present time glass is Imported
duty free If It is Jo be employed for
educational purposes; and the state
ef the domestic glsss industry to to
good (hat congress Is bntng urged to
withdraw this p+eferenen.
* COX i^NO HIK DIVOKCB ?
Question m to Wbieh \\?t to BUnv
Fpr DomNtk Trouble.
j Tin* Jltbllcal HmMrdcr says M?
In h nwiit Ijh?uc of the Hecorder U
ted on what "ih supposed to
be good uuttiorltj thot Mru. Oux left
her huahund and went off with anoth
or loan, and that bt* w#>- justified In
Uccurlng a divorce under tboe* clr
cum.siiimT.s We ore lit receipt of a
letter containing a clipping froui tin*
Huston Herald. wlilcU litotes that the
records show that Mr*, (bx brought
action against her husband for divorce,
on the ground ??f uon-aupport. Mr.
('ox, according to tbt* statement, did
not re;!st the gction for jtMVorce. Mrs.
< \ \vn4 ^ivrn ?t divorce with alimony,
Isoing allowed $'joo pt?r mouth until
January, 193$, and cftch parent wan to
have custody of the thiYe chlldiyu, the
time lieltJK divided, we thipfOfe, by mu
tual agreement. The. youngest lu?y U
with hi* toother, t i<t> oldest i>o.\ 1* in
<-ol lege, and the only daughter !s mar*
rled. and visits both parent*. For
the supiKut of tly,? Child Who is with
her Mrs. Cox la allowed $7ft per lumitii.
After soOttHng hor dlvoree, Mrs. C<?X
married Hlchard F. Lefc, < no of the at
torneys who appeared for Ihm-.
In sending the paragraph our
friend says: "If this Is the, true state
of flie SUM 9$ the first Mrs,' CVx. your
pora graph does not do Just'ce t > her,
bud I aln sure you will Tie ea^?r to
COrrCet tlu> Impression glvep."
; We certaluly do not want, to do any
one an Injustice; onrt haston to p(tbM*h
the facto Contained in the Statement'
sent us, and yet there, are some things
in this statement which are hard to
explain, If Mr. Cox was solely to hlaiue.
In her complaint Mrs. Cox alleged that
Mr. Cox would not sjpeak to her for
months, and while she was on a visit
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I10 removed to another house, and t>hen
informed his wife that he could not
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re-enter the home or have the chldron.
I>oes not that l>ear on Its face strong
evidence that Mr. <U>x had go >d reason
to believe that his wife was not what
she ought to have been? And Is it not
quite l.'kely tha^ he/did not r slst the
,ult ,!n order that' he might, protect
the, children from the stigma t'hat a
scandal wOuld fix upon them? And
it It not unreasonable th*t Ohio would
?leet a man three tla??*s to be Its gov
ernor, and thMt a district lu which He
lived would aeiul him a* their rvp
reeenUtlve to Congress. If ho was guil
ty ??f *tch groan ttertef$^ tlurt he wan
afraid to resist a cause brought by Ma
wife for divorce?
We are no special pleader for Mr.
<\>x, but we an> presenting what ap
I *'? r to n* to be good reasons why he
allowed the divorce to be gr*i>tcd with
out opptwlug It.
liKtew NEWS notkn
lioci^iiiig Item* Gathered Front The
Kra of That IMac*.
The Keabaw ?CJounty Interdenomlna
tlonal Sunday -School Qpuventbm will
in* ontertalfMHl by i>ainasvu< Suuday
rt-r lll<' *at unlay, August usiu.
All white Sunday srlioMs In Kershaw
county are expected' to have delegates
proatmt at tin* convention. I>. R, Finch
cr of Kcrahc^v, is the president of tho
County Association,
Miss Lilian TrUesdale left last Fri
day for Annvllle, Ky.. where ah? has
accepted a iH>9ltlon an teacher In the
Aiiinvllle Institute, a mission school
In the mountains of Kentucky.
Mrs. N. ft. Goodale and two chllren
Abbott ami Mary, of Camden. spent
several days In Kershaw last week at
the home Of T. K. Fletcher.
The body of Hud McMauu*. son of
Laura MeM ana*, who was with the
American exp&lltlonary forces and
died of melngltls in France. was
brought bacK last week for burial at
hla home.
?Mrs. Ida Hutchinson, of Mcintosh.
'Fla.', ' spent a couple of weeks In. Ker
shaw with her niece, Mrs. Ellen Ilamol,
and left Monday morhlng to visit rela
tive- at Iluntersvllle. N. C.
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Goiilale. and F.
N, McCorkle. of Oamdeu, and F. r>.
Goodale, of Sumter, spent Sunday In
Kershaw at the home of M> and Mrs.
T. K. Fletcher.
Miss Nettle Scott and Connie Payne
of the -Buffalo section of Kershaw Coun
ty were married Sunday morning, last,
by Rev. J. M. Neal at his (home.
Miss Jessie Mae Robertsqu, of
'Pheasant Hill, and Broadus B. Neal,
son of Rev. J. M. Neal, were married
Save Now for
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Your Future
Safety
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To save intelligently and consistently, we
must have some particular purpose in view.
One saves to acquire and education; anoth
er to start in business; still another to
build a home.
But? the basis of all saving, is to prepare
for our future saefty ? to assure protection
from want and penury in our old age.
Prepare now for your future safety. Open
a savings account at the First National
Bank. Once the start is made, grit and de
termination will p?t you over the top.
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at Lancaster last Sunday morning by
Rev. J. S. Corpeniiiig, pastor of, the Laii
' caster First Baptist church.
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1 Nearly three hundred dollars worth
?! of silk shirts were worn at a re<vnt
party given at tlu? fcoxdo of a colored
woman In Monroe according to reli
able parties. A prize of $2 had been
offered for the prettiest silk shirt worn
j at the affair and all those present, num
bering between twenty-five and thirty,
were contestants. A negro In the em
ploy of the Heath-Morrow company was
< the winner with a shirt costing . $12.50.
Shirts, it Is said, wero worn that cost
$15, and none of them sold for less than
$10. Tho Heath-Morrow company ne
gro .won the pri*| by the beauty of th?
material, and not on a<;eouut of its
lilgih cost. A committee made a minute
luspectlon of eat'h shirt before making
the award. Many of theso negroes
worked an entire week for tholr lone
shirt. ? Monroe KuQuirer.
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A crowd of 25,000 Germans gather
ed in a^ park in Bertln last Sunday And
solemnly vowed that they would never
go to war again under amy clrouiii7
stances. Hundreds of war crippUes
some of them being brought there on
j stretdiers iwrtidtjafed' In the celeb ra
? t>Voik commemorating the anniversary
I of Germany's declaration' of war on
I Russia.
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