Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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No Red Tape in Joining Our Christmas Savings Club Just say, 1 i;? rklfc is willing and get ywur jkiss l*ook. You will thru h*4 happy on your way to a I>Ei; r nHKI$TMA8 next year. - ? ,y - ? ?- . ? ? '4 . 5 * . Ypu con look the problem ot Christ inaH Squarely in the eye;. A Ten Dol lar Illll in tiic hand' is better than a lot of Unpaid Kills on January 1st. You Can Join Today. A Plan for Kvery Purse. Ally of Thorn Spell Christina* Cheer. MAKE YOUR BUILDING A LANDMARK " ? ' To do so it must be permanent and beautiful. Use the Palmetto Brick ? they are the best and prices are right. See Leroy S. Davidson & Company Camden,' South Carolina Life Insurance Protects mortgaged real estate. A "Life" Policy pays the mortgage if the bor * - v rower dies, it gives him time to discharge the obligation it' lie dies. An "Endowment" Policy pays off the mortgage whether the borrower lives or dies. \ * Southeastern Life Insurance Co., L. A. McDowell, Agent DOUBLE YOUR DOLLARS WITH DUROCS j Two crops a year and always a market Ham and bacon are the world's greatest meats. Raise your own and some to sell. Pure breds give quick returns for feed. J-ct us help you start. No charge. All informaUon free, a postal gets it. AMERICAN DUROC-JERSEY ASSOCIATION Exchange and Dexter Park Avenue :: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Phone 66 ? * We specialize on Telephone Orders. Prompt Delivery. Bruce s Pure Food Store PHONE 66 NOW FUEL PROM THE AIR Western Writer Waxes Sarcastic Ov er Certain Enthusiastic Projects in Contemplation. Two yr three times a .war, father, who hijft trouble netting fuel for liia tli\ vci,, becomes greatly excited <>\er the ( discovery of some new kjnd of economic fuel tlnit nmy l?o made out of, spring water, or sawdust, hut hln hopes a it; always dispelled. Nothing further Is heard uhout the swell fuel, and .he continues to tight for hln ga* as usual, says the Seattle I'ost-Intel ilgeneer. Just now he Is greatly excited over another cheap fuel story, and this time rigid hero at home where he can watchjt. A Seattle man hits beeh run ning an engine on air, has Installed It on a newly devised dirigible airship and soon he expects to ascend from, his Youngstown airdotne and remain aloft for six days und six j nights without coming back to earth for fuel, food or water, lie starts his engine with an electric battery, and begins at once to generate power from the air. After that ho claims to bo able to generate power from air until 'his engine wears out. Thj' Seattle airship is fourteen feet long and ten feet high, the upper half helng a gas chamber, and the lower occupied by engine room and bunks. There are two propellers. Five pas sengers may be carried, and. the thing makes about 25 miles an hour when pressed. Breakfast in Seattle, dinner In New York. Some story, eh? And father is greatly excited about It. Now that we are making fuel out of air we shall require to he more careful with It, With general adop tion < ' the air engine the great waste heretofore apparent must he stooped. Look, for Instance, at the prodigal waste that goes forward at political conventions. Look at the wlnd.v hosts sapping up the oxygen, and giving hack imthing but nitrogen! An air ship propelled by an air engine would meet a vacuum and have to come to earth because of the lack of .raw fuel In the atmosphere. The Youngstown Inventor has out most optimistic friendship. We hope he makes his engine go. If he can win out with It fuel for winter may he procured from the air; we may run the Seattle municipal street cars on air; and we may make our elfe^trlclty for light and power from It. We may practically live on air. That Is what a select few have accomplished In the past, and the habit should be made common. Fontaine . Chateau-Thierry, that place which played such a prominent part In the world war, was the birthplace of Jean De La Fontaine, who entered this world on July 8. 1(121. 1I?? was of n good family and, like many other youths of his station, was educated for the priesthood. But the profession of a cleric was not to the liking ??f the dreamy. Irresponsible boy. which characteristics he carried throughout his life. So, forsaklpg his career laid out by his parents, he became a happy-go-lucky idler until his poetic talent war n wakened ahd be began t ?? write. In his last years he became slncorul.v religious. Fon taine has. been termed a spoiled child of nature: simple, guileless, and exas perating to his friends. who tolerated his sliortromlngs because of their love for him. The permanent value of his work In the development of French literature, especially through the fables. was early recognized. In mind he Is akin to Mollere, and with him those two men are the most widely liked French writers ?>f the seventeenth century. The Mean Bridegroom. P. i shop Benjamin Brewster said nt n wedding breakfast In Portland: "The meanest man I ever heard of in my life was a Kansas farm hand. ? lie rant a Kansas preacher up at 12 o'clock nnc night to marty him. and after the ceremony he said: "?Well, parson, are we spliced now?' " ' Absolutely,' sain the parson. " 'Spliced hard and fast?" " 'Nothing but death.' the parson said, 'ran break fhe sacntl tie whleh now binds you to this ladv.' " 'You couldn't ?unsplice us again, parson, even if you wanted to?' "No; the ceremony 1 have perform ed Is irrefragible and irrevocable.' "Then parson, I'm coin' to stand you of! for it.' said the farm hand, with a relieved look. and. taking his wife hy the arm. he departed, never fo return." To Destroy Grasshopper Nests. The breeding ground of the grass hoppers that annually spread over Sutter and Yuba counties is believed centered around the Sutler Butte* and farmers ?? Sutter county orr planning an aggressive eampalgn against the pest* nevt year, with thf idea of killing on the hoppers, before they heroine strong enough to mi grate. The ground.-, around the Buttes ?nr* chirfl, arid grazing lands Ac cording to insect specialists ?he Buttes grasshopper* ire similar to the Utah pe^ts, Mi uhiiv breeding places 2f?.200 e?g? ? th?> ?qn;trp fonr are deposited San Fmnrtsen Chropi c|e Roltirg Hotel* Few people w h<? ride i r > p:ir'<ir ear* realize how stuprmlnt:> i- the ?v?tem of which the enrs are a part. If Is the equivalent "?f a hotel with CWVOOO be<ls and 2,901' ofhee de^k* ni whleh '2i\ million guest* resist ?r every \ear It has eifht thousand negro porters, owns IliiH worth two million dollars, and uaes *00.000 worth '>f cnap a year ?-Youth'* rotnpsnlon Am 1 My BrotherN Keeper? ( By Bleha rtl U. lCdnumdw. Kdltor Manufacturers Record.) h Above all cl*c this country needs a< nationwide revival of old fashioned ' prayer met lug religion A religion that makes men realize that It' there Is a lleaven, there must also of necessity be a Hell A religion that make* a man ronlUft that every art Is recorded on his own conscience. and that though that may slumber, it ean never die A religion that makes an employer understand that If he Is unfair to his employe's ami pays t hem less than fair wages, measured by his ability ami their efficiency, ami zeal. he Is a rob her A religion that makes an employe know that If he does not give full and efficient service, he top i? a robber A religion that makes a farmer, who paeks bad fruit at the bottom and de ceives the buyer by the good fruit on toi>, realise that he Is a thief just as much as the one winy robs a hen roost at night? A religion that inJHies a man who robs a railroad of its fan", or Its freight m know that he robs himself of all right to feel that he Is an hottest man- -? A religion that makes a man realize (hat by driving too hard a bargain with his servant, bis employe or his merchant, be ca.M be 'just as much a profiteer the seller or producer who swindles by false weight, false packing or false charges A religion that will teaeh church member's who fail to contribute to the extent of their ability to the support of religion, and that compels them to recognize that . if they are paying their pastor less than a living salary, they are robbing (Iod and man alike? A rcllulon that will make the labor | inc man. who. by threats or by actual violence against the mm -union num. I strives to keep him out of employment, realize that he Is at heart *a murderer and Is murdering the individuality, and i the liberty of his fellow-man, and is displaying, a hatred which, if it has j the opportunity, will commit physical ! murder? A religion that will make the politi cian who yields principle' for the sake of party, who worships at the feet of any class and sells his soul for i?olitl [ eal proferment know that be is not only a coward and a i>oltiorvn. and un worthy of the resjK'ft of any decent i num.. bu1 which will also make hiin see that he is helping to murder hu I man liberty, as great a crime as mur j dering tbq individual man ? In short, we invd a revival of that ! I li>n whlv)i will make every man ' ind woman strive 111 every act i?f life | to (Jo that which, OU tl?*\ JJlTill .JtuUlL' men I l>a,\ they will wis|? they had done, as wiilj wul uncovered they stand In loif tile Judgement Kent of the lOtcmal. Cikt II the people of tills tuition no eept and 1 1 v f this religion there will be strife where there should Ih? irt'iii'is. there will 1h? strike# and lockouts and 'murdoV whore there should ho co ftpmt (fon and harmony; there will h> hatred whore. there should he friendship and lOVO. In the (Johlon Unh>. followed In the fullness of l, lu? spirit of this kind of religion, there would he found a soul lion for every business trouble; there would ho Wonted friendship between j employer and employe; capital and labor Would work In harmony and | with efficiency,' efficiency for the trapl i tal and efficiency for the labor, with j profits to both. Religion of this kind Is not measured by the hope of lleavon hereafter, but by the f nl 1 fruition now of "lVace on I earth to men of good will." ft Is not merely the chant loft of 'hymns here or In the world to come, | but it is in the recognition and full I application by rich and by i*ior, by j learned and unlearned, that each oho I is indeed his brother's keeper, that we ' I'tin brim; this conulr\ and the World back to safety. A nation wide a?*ceptanee or this, the i only truo religion in action, would br nir business ponce and world peace i where there Is now turinvil, and men would then, cense to seek to gain their aims by lowless acts of innnorality. biu would in spirit and in deed follow ? the lMvine command. "All things what , soever ye would that men do to you. do ye even so to them." The old Fugllsh hospital camp at , Camiers, France, which originally cost | several, hundred thousand dollars has been taken over by the French gov , eminent and opened as a recreational , camp for underfed children from tthe deva^tod regions. Women employes of the 1 >ot rolt pyst office have been ordered to wear gray I ehambrny aprons. Since last May. when the right was granted by the Methodist Fpiscopnl rhnoel#. I'lfrPFh women have received license* to preach. Scotch distillers are advertising that their business with the United States has largely increased since the United States went prohibition. SHORT NKWS 8TORIK8, Hoiiih of liferent Inhered 1?Vom M*my So rtoveruor Ivi 1 1 ?> of Alabama, pa rolod thlrbvn convicts on Christ nutx eve (lay. .John Kctimxly,. aged tM. a former police lieutenant of Pittsburg, on Christinas day went to the homo of trs wife, with whom tin' had not Won HvIuk for several months, am! after shooting ' her klled himself. Mrs Konjfedy cannot reeovor. Mrs, Host* 10. Porter. wealthy Chi ?-u?o woman. dloil last week. To Hex, her poodle dog. c*ho loft $S,tHH>. To It .1. .tol.llnc, hor half brother, she loft $5 United States guards wore reeontly removed from the international hrldgOH between tho city of .luarac/., Mexico. ,nii(l 101 Paso, Texas. Removal of the troops was due' to the restoration of peaceful oomllllons In Mexico. l.udondoiff's book on the war Is judg<sl by oiiem.t x>ffleors t <? bo the tru<*st account thus far cot^ing- from tho (Jorman side. Ho says tin- (iormnn arin.v was defeated and worn out In 11)10. Tho I1. S, s. s. Oklahoma Is trying, u now system of education recently ail opted by fhe navy. Sixteen officers and 450 enlisted molt 'tire enrolled In tho courses. >> Washington. M < \. lots a general staff school. Mn n v of Its eonrsoM d t ? instruction are secret Its ohlef mis slon the training <?f personnel for geiiorj} I staff work. S<?ldlors admitted to hospitals of the \ 10. I1', from buttle onuses suffered more from wounds in the leys than in any other part of the body. There were T2,f?27 eases. lOdith ('a row Roosevelt, widow of the Into e\ President, loads all women in the United States for women pension ors of the federal government. Iler allowance is $r?,0(k) a year. With the permission of the United States < Jovornment, the Dutch war do partincnt has sent a commission of of fleer observers to the. army on the Hhino to study American army moth ods'. . The first slops have been taken by the Indian State legislature to erect a national home ut Indlanaiwlis for the American I<ogion, to be used as a permanent national headquarters. Dc*splte the fact that American In dlnns are not eligible to the full priv ileges of citizenship, the American Le glon huff ruled that all who served in the war ollgblo to full membership. Back to Pre-War PRESTO-LITE t BATTERIES FOR ALL CARS Last to Raise First to Reduce That new storage battery your can needs ? can now be bought at a big and sub stantial saving. You will think the good old days have really come back when you see what Preat-O-Lite has done to restore the low cost o^motoring. Heavy Reduction in the Cost of New Batteries Yet quality has been rigidly maintained. That unusual pep and reserve power for which the Prest-O-Lite battery has always been famous, is greater than ever today. A full powered battery of correct size for your car is ready, waiting for you at the new price. A Prest-O-Lite battery in your car will give you a world of satisfac tion. If your old battery still has some value, we will make you a handsome allowance in buying a new battery, a still further saving in addition to the substantial discount that the new low price will give you. Beard's Battery Service West DeKalb Street Camden, S. C.