Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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State Income Tax I^aw Fioreuee, May 1.- -Hen u tor D. Uor (h.ii Maker today ? \|u? ^m| mtIoiis , ,|..nl)t ii *> to whether til*' Stato of South Carolina could enfqroe collection of any taxes off incomes for last year, ami stated frankly lie believed the churts w t mi I<1 deolde a^aiiiM (lie Stale ill any ease it might hriii# against deiiiu|uent>\ The Senator i>olnt<Hl to. the Supreme < ulirt decision on the inheritance tux Jaw and to the fact that Mm* Income j lax law had iitNcr Imtm |?u!>l UIumI to support Ills opinion. Tilt* r<H ?uniMou(la tlon of tho commit tK*. published In Iho IIouko Journal, ho mild, 1* alto Kcthcr different frutn tliu HliU ft* i>tw> I tailed. It was ?tatod hero today that tho kiw would ho oonto*tod l?y a vlti&on i?f piorenco. " ? ' ? ? , Mrs <' II Morri* <*onl <?}>ornU>rt tfnxvry oxecUtlw, oluh woman .ttiul mother' has -hem oUX'ttnl to tin* Oily in Molnrs, lown. WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY ' . . . . By Making Ybur Old Clothing Serviceable ? We are doing it for thousands of others ? why not for you? We believe a trial will convince you. FOOTER'S DYE WORKS Cumberland, Md. If it is low, let us prescribe the right tonic. No matter what make of battery you have in your car, come around to us. Our job is to keep your bat' tery in commission. You will get an honest expert diagnosis of it, and a real recommenda tion of what to do. 1 How's Your Battery Pulse Today? At the right time you will find it to your advantage to exchange the old battery for a new Prest-O-Lite, at our low 1922 prices. For $19.90 (trade^ in price) get a Prest-O-Lite Battery with Prest - O - Plates for popular makes of light cars. We have correspondingly low prices for other types of batteries. Prest-O-Plates, the greatest advance in battery making; the. plates of unusual hard - ness, combined' with a pe culiar porosity ;? plates with quick delivery of power in cold weather, and great non buckling, heat-resisting strength in summer. Drive around and get our diagnosis. It is free. Pull up wher? you Bee this sijjn CAMDEN BATTERY AND VULCANIZING WORKS Camden, S. C. THE OLDEST SERVICE TO MOTORISTS >19 22 and up cThade in v price J 'HeadquorterB for" Prest-O-^lte's special battery , for radio purposes. f Before crossing a railroad track you see the sign STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN Before you make your purchases of Heavy Groceries, Hay, Grain and Feed you will do well to see us and get our prices. ? We are agents for the best cow feed on the market ? Larro Feed, "The Dairyman's Friend." We cater to the wants of Farmers. If you have a cotton planter, mower, Wagon or any other piece of ma chinery that needs new parts to put it in working order Bee us and we will make a special order for it, if we havn't the parts in stock. We have the exclusive agency in Kershaw County for the International Harvester Co. Now is the time to get your machinery in order for harvesting small grain. If you need a reaper and binder or binder twine it will be to your interest to see us and get our prices. Springs & Shannon "The Store That Carries the Stock." CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA ORIGIN OF WORDS Entertainment and Knowledge in the Search. In the End, It Will Do Found That Ex. planationa Are In the Nature of a Goass. Most people take - their woulu (and their phrases, too) ready made; thut la, they learn a small vocabulary from hearing other people talk, und nfter wurd, finding the same word* in books and dictionaries, they are emboldened to use them In their speech and writ log. If they ever wonder where faae words emne from originally It la In a vague, listless way, rather 1110 thf way they look upou mysterious astron omy. ' . 0 If one pi i ?*> a comparatively small class down to their actual knowledge of the English lunguage one can learn something more definite, but still nebu lous. This small educated class real ly has heard of the Angles and Dunes who Impinged their language on* the Plcts and thus started the Anglo-Sax on booni- It will tell you also how Julius Caesar -brought hla cohorts Into Britain and almost succeeded in mak ing It A Latin-speaking Island. Coming down to the year 1000, the aatuu cultivated persons explain by means of the Conquest the large num ber of French words that have been more or less Anglicized that we use every day. And when we ask why there are so many German words in our tongue it Is only necessary to re call the fact of a common Teutonic origin of the sailors and beachcombers who lived eitluu- In the fens or along the shores of Europe and England. They spoke what may be called a com mon language. After Shakespeare, Milton, Prydeu, Ken Jonkon, Sam Johnson and other notable writers had Introduced more Latin, Italian and French words Into the language and invented a few of their own English may be said to hnv<? been finished. Really every language, including English, Is extraordinarily ?conservative and resents new words. All the same new Words do get Into them. These words are sometimes re quired to describe new things In the arts, sciences, etc. When Morse Invented his code a handy word had to be made and so arose telegraph' and a variety of deriv atives. The airplane lias given us in turn several new words. Slang gives us a novel word flow and then. For instance, the word "boycott" 1iad no trouble at all In 'finding Its way into our tongue and into most Euro pean languages. It arose from the treatment of Capt. Boycott of Lough Musk House in the County Mayo in 1880. "Boston," a new word for a new card game, got into the language earli er. It comes from the siege of our city of Boston in 1775-70 and the moves of the game follow all the stra tegic moves In this military history. l'omp, meaning a solemn procession, comes from the the Latin word porape, which was. In turn derived from the Latin verb pempeln, which means to send. Meddle, to mix, is a distortion of the word middle, hut tt has as good a place in the language now as Its forebear. Who knows where the word haber dashery comes from? Ask any man who sells neckties, collars and other little things to adorn (perhaps) the person of man and he hasn't the least idea. Look up the word in the stand ard dictionaries; the search will not be rewarded. Quite otherwise is the origin of the word humble pie. It comes from the .eating by servants long years ago of pie made from the umbles, or entrails, of the deer. There Is considerable entertainment and not a little knowledge to be gained by looking up the origin of words. Why not add it to the list of popular indoor sports? ? New York Herald. Long In Public Life. "Uncle Joe" Cannon's announced In tention to retire from service In con gress at the expiration of his present term, completing fort.v-slx years In the house, has called attention to the length of service of other house mem bers. Burton of Cleveland and Long worth of Cincinnati are the veterans of the Ohio delegation, each now serv ing his ninth term. The Clevelnnder, j howevef. In addition, has served one term of six years In. the senate. 1 Fess, of Yellow Springs, Is serving his fifth term;^ooper of Youngstown. and Kearns of Bavaria, their fourth ; and Cole of Ftndlay, Foster of Ath ens, Moore of Cambridge, Murphy of Steuben vllle, Stephens, of Cincinnati, and Thompson of Defiance, their sec ond. The others are all first-termer*. Tone Producer for Violin. It la said that a modern violin, of any ordinary make, can be converted into the equivalent of a StradivariuM, or other violin of Italy'* golden days of string-Instrument making, by the attachment to it of a newly Invented tone producer. The devlre, according to an Illustrated article In the March Popular Mechanics Magazine, Is ap plicable to any kind of string Instru ment. Tfc rn.de of specially prepared wood, and Is so constructed that It conforms to the shape of the Instru ment to which it la attached. Edmonton Hai a Guihir. A new gas well north of Kdmonton, Alberta, la gushing at a rate of 40, 000,000 cubic feet a day and tfce r<%r of the r%? can be heard at a dlstanc* of fifteen mfleo Men working in the vicinity bar# to wear craska. "lit, AIM THE LOVERS' U.mEV' Sentirient in Thousands of Hearts Pic* eta That They May Nevor Be come Great Highway* A 1 * I tip gray Cottage stand* on a hilltop, Itclow 1 1 u? hill runs the cross road. There is not much, travel on tW road It serve> Co conned two highu ay a, OHent lines the crossroad takes Its \\u> to the fo<?t of some deeply w ? m<? !?*? I Khoil iiviit M?iH**t?M?e*? it goes over . a tjvejjj>, quiver lug under Its Icy cover. Ttyt-n the two cutis of tin* road meet by means of a little Uvldge, where the hoofheats of the horse echo loud and tin- sound of the becomes a ylnut dMinino. Sometimes (ho cross road Is overarched with tree*, as it la below the ?N?y cottage, and the sum uior snhlluht only tilters through In patches Huoh a compelling;, master -lous intimacy iin there Is t<? the crossroad tlUMI, The youtig folks call the crossroad "lovers' lane." The old folks used, to call It "lovers' luae" when they were young and dru.ve under the arched branches or Jingled over the, road Jn sleighs, while the round mdtnt laid the shadows of the Mack branches meet ing overhead In Ptehftigs on the snow. "Lovers' lane"?- every ' county owni one. There was a lovers' hijio In Sangamon county, '? Illinois, and Ahe Lincoln walked along It with Ann Kutledge In the \'U>s-? 'soldiers sang about "lovers' lane"? 'inay all the lit tle crossroads that now are lovers' lanes never, never become arterial highways! ? Chlcngo Dally News. EASY TO TELL HIS THOUGHTS Little Peculiarities of Theodora Vail Revealed Much to Friends and Business Associates. There was nothing eccentric about Theodore N. Vail, but he had certain little peculiarities of manner. ITroiu hit* biographer, Albeit Higelow l'alne, we learn that for one thing he was ab sent-minded. Once, says Mr. Paine, when Mr. Vail was starting on one of his many trips to the Pacific coast and had invited his niece to accompany him he turned to her abruptly at the moment of de parture: "\\>ll, good-by, Kate," he said, "I'm ? sorry you're not coming with me." Her prompt reply that she was fo iriK both startled and amused him. His thoughts seemed always, to re quire some sort of physical outlet. When listening to anyone he had a habit of making small pencil drawings ?curlicues, geometrical shapes and letters carefully shaded. They showed that he was interested In what was being said. When he was not Inter ested be would pull out a handker chief and fold and refold It on his knee down to the smallest subdivision. Those who knew him could easily tell when he was not enjoying a situation, for then the handkerchief would in variably appear, and the folding con tinue until the suffering ended. ? Youth's Companbjn. Scottish Gardeners Valued. Scottish gardeners are being ex ported to all parts of the world. A notable instance of the value In which the Scottish gardeAer Is held, Is the engagement by a United States mil lionaire, of a Scotsman for his private grountfSL?itjt jjJanlary of $5,000 a year. Not many years ago the man was gut ting a few dollars a quarter in I?n don. One of the superintendents In a London park can record several In stances of his men from across the border getting very high salaries for private establishments on this side of the Atlantic. There Is one gardener of Scottish origin in a South London park who says he has "mown the grass"' in most corners **t the earth, including remote parts of South Amer ica. A high percentage of the gar deners in ' London public parks are Scots, and more than one supervisor can boast of his clnn. Swells' Pride. Mrs. John I). Rockefeller, Jr., made a graceful little speech nt the opening of the (irace Dodge hotel In Wash ington. lids hotel, which Mrs. Rocke feller helped to found, Is exclusively for women. It has many novel fea tures, among them elaborately equipped rooms where woman guests fnay laun der their own linen. "Comfortable, even luxurious as our hotel Is," said Mrs. Rockefeller, "there are some women who will hesitate to patronize it out of pride. Pride! Such pride reminds me of a story. "'Father, what la a swell?' a little boy once asked. " 'A swell, son,' the father an swered, 'Is a lazy loafer whose sole claim to Importance lies In the fact that he once had an ancestor who devoted his life to hard and hocest work.' H Water 30 Cents a Gallon. Water Lsn't quite up to the price of liquor, but It 1s almost there at Cow Camp, the driest point on the Silver Peak rangp, near Tonopah, New They are paying 30 cents a gallon for It, and residents are agreeing that it Is cheap at the price. There isn't any competi tion. The water man has a monopoly and no one envies him his Job. The nearest watering place Is 11 miles away. For Ave miles the water is enrried in a tmckboard drawn by horses. Then the road narrows to a trail and horses are unhitched, tbe wa ter bags tied over their backs, and the retnaln<Kr of the trip is slow. It takes about a day to make the trip. In the o)d days, when saloons quenefiefl thirsts, there wasn't tbe de mand for water that there la now. ? Lod Angeles Times. cigarettes They are Mood!t Buy this Cigarette and Save Money Spare the Kagle. ? It Is very probable that tho buhl eagle brought down near Concord ami the omlf killed nc?r Oharlbttc on tho Kiiuic day were mates scouting about for a meal. It is oort-ain that tho ex <*i t ??< I people who killed these noble birds committed a crime against the state. Tlu- eagle is almost extinct ami the few samples that ream In should moot with protection, rather than with slaughter. Mason Hood was the loeal ornithologist, who was exorcised over tho ibagging of tho Charlotte ea^le and ho was grieved that there was not ^patriotism oiVough im all of the city to !?roduce five dollars with which the bird ooiihl have born mounteij and pre sented to Carnegie Library! Along the cast country in South Carolina there are numberij of eagles and these sometime* stray inland, only too of ten to meet the fate recorded for t^be two we are writing about. The Charleston News aaid ( Vmrlor thinks there should be a Nation-wide effort to stop the killing of eagles. This Nation has chosen the hald eagle as Its emblem .and yet. instead of pro tecting and 'preserving It, wo treat it as though it were an enemy and a jH'st and slaughter every eagle that we can get at. "The bird Is already so rare Iin most parts of tlu* country,*' says Tile News and Courier, "that the apitenrance of an eagle causes a flut ter of excitement throughout the whole district, while the killing of one is regards! as n great event, news of which Is -scut ??u.t over the. wlrost to newspapers hundreds of miles distant. This is a shabby way to treat the National bird, whose scream will never he heard any more, for the American eagle will ho as extinct as the dodo." ? Charlotte Observer, New Lhv Requires Autos to Stop Richmond, Va., May 2. ? Drivers of automobiles and other vehicles using the public highways of Virginia musti come to a full ?top h<'fore crossing any main line railway track at grade un der a law recently eimcted by the General Assembly of Virginia. The law provides that drivers of all vehicles on approaching any grade crossing of a main line railway track outside an incorporated to Win must stop not h>?s than ten feet nor more than one hundred feet from tin* near est rail. A i|>enalty of ten dollars for each violation is provided in the act, Advocntos of this act. pointed out that its enforcement would gectatly re duce t he number <?f grade (Tossing ac cidents. lly enacting this law the Virginia solons have given legal effect lo the admonitions which railways have for many years displayed on their crossing signs, urging drivers of vehicles to "Stop, Look, and Listen!"' Ih certain (ireek Inland*, where sponge fishing prevails n girl must bring up a st>eelfled amount of sponge from a certain depth before she Is permitted to marry. BUY A FORD CAR ? % ON EASY TERMS AT HERE'S HOW WE WILL SELL YOU - . t A FORD TOURING CAR WITH STARTER Touring, with Starter $497.50 Thief-Proof Lock $7.50 Recording $1.00 Carrying Charge, including Interest and Fire and Theft Insurance $50.50 $556.50 This is payable one-third, or $185.17 cash, and $30.87 per month for twelve months. Coupes, Sedans, Roadsters and Trucks sold on similar plans. KERSHAW MOTOR COMPANY Dealers CAMDEN, - SOUTH CAROLINA WITTE GASOLINE AND KEROSENE ENGINES 3 Horse Power Gasoline Engine $75.00 4 Horse Power Gasoline Engine $95.00 6 Horse Power Gasoline Engine $140.00 8 Horse Power Gasoline Engine $175.00 4 Horse Power Kerosene Engine $105.00 6 Horse Power Kerosene Engine $150.00 \ Horse Power Portable Saw Rig $175.00 6 Horse Power Portable Saw Rig $215.00 Log Saw with Gasoline Engine $85.00 Add to above prices $11.95 for Bosch Magneto Equipment. WITTE ENGINE WORKS General Delivery COLUMBIA, S. C