Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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t HE CAMDEN CHRONICLE It. I>. NILK8 Mi tor ami Publisher ' ? Published every Friday ?t No. 1 100 liroud Htreet ami entered at the Cam den, South (Uirolinu postoffice na second eJass mail mutter. Price per annum $2.00. CAM I)RN, K. May u, ,(Ioah-nll-hemloCk! what do you know about this? A man addressing the convention of the South Carolina plumber** at "Columbia the other day .said that the trade did not have the respect of the public because plum ? bum did not charge enough for their work. Lancaster Citizen. \ . l4w Enforcement. At least seven out of every ten vot or.H in the United- States are in favor *?f the law prohibiting the manufac ture and .sale of alcoholic liquors, and they want the law unforced, but n<H many people arc pleased with 'tie* present manner of its enforcement.; There is complaint, well founded, that too many of tin* prohibition of ficers are themselves opposed to the law. Others do not care what the law is; they are merely trying to hold their jobs with the least effort. Still othprs are accused, on good circum stantial evidence, of shielding offend-1 ors for pay ? There Is. an old saying that some times a condition has to get <wor.se l>e* fore it can get better. It. may be that conditions as Regards the enforce- | ment of thl* prohibition law will get worse before they begin to* get bet ter, but sooner or later, there is bound to be a change and then 1 hi* law will be, intelligently and honestly en forced. Carolina Citizen. Ttlf Kik'ht Wl|i One of the best si^ns of ill-bidding in talking at a concert or other enter tainment, or otherwise behaving in a mannei that 'disturbs others' <*njoy ment. And it is so inexcusable- ? there are so many places to talk and laugh. The ill-bred man says: "1 paid my money to come here, and 1 will do as 1 idea h?." The well-bred man # ays: "The people paid their money to hear, and I have no right to disturb them." New berry Observer. ? ?-*? ? ? -j ISandits killed one foreigner and carried off 150 passengers in a . raid near the" Shantung border on the Tientsinl'ukow railway in Cheria, last Sunday., Mifcx Aldrichj-vof New York, sister-in-law of John 1). Kocke fellow, Jr., and' daughter of former U. S. Senator Nelson VV. Aldrieh, was among tjvd passengers, but her fate is unknown. The foreigner killed is be lieved to hp' a Russian. The minister of communication late today" telct graphed General Tesao Kun and the civil military governors of Shantung, asking that troops be sent to sur round the bandits. Tho, express train was northbound from Soochow when attacked by the bandits who disarmed soldiers estimated at 1,000 strong and tore up a stretch of the railroad track, Fifty first-class and 100 second-class passengers were carried ofF, it was re j ported here . Six foreigners escaped. BASE BALL . ? Saturday, May 12th, 3:30 P. M. Darlington, Y.M.C.A. ~vs.~ Wateree Mills At Wateree Field. Admission 25 Cents Camden Ice Co We sell ice made in Camden. Our ser-/ vice is regular, and good. Our Coupons are worth 100 cents on the dollar in ice or cash. Our weights are correct, or we make them good without a question. Our drivers are polite or we change them on complaint. We have no favorites. And when you sift it down you will find it pays to buy ICE from Camden Ice Co. Phone 18 Slimmer will soon be here. Now is (he time to make your plans. 1 Ik- ? "'lotions .Mountains of West tin North Carolina welcome you. "THE LAND OK THE SKY" ? The Vacationist's Paradise. All Out-ol-Door Sports Reduced Summer Fares, Begin ning Ma\ Fifteenth. Southern Railway System SccreUrie* Meet in Memphis. The very interesting program of the Sixteenth Annuni Convention ami School of instruction of the Southern Commercial Secretaries Association which assembles for a ftvo day session at Mumphls, Tennessee, May 21 S', has been received at Chamber of Commerce. On April 16th, 1907, six teen yearn ago, at Chattanooga, Ten nessee this association waH formed, and thi1 prevent managing secretary of the Camden Chamber of Com. meree, K. I. Reardon, tells us that he was one of the charter members and delivered an address, entitled, "Reciprocal Relations Between Tho Railway Companies and the People." The late K. J. Watson, Commissioner of Agriculture and Labor of South Carolina was also ono of the speakers at this Chattanooga convention. To day it is said that Secretary Keardon is the only .surviving Charter member of this association still in harness. The Atlanta Convention Bureau and Chamber of Commerce with other trade bodies and associations have in vited all secretaries going to Mem?, phis, via Atlanta, to Come to that city tl\j? day before the Memphis con vention and spend the night and day of the 20th of 'May at the Winncotf Hotel, as the 'guests of Atlanta and all leave at 5:00 p. m., the 20th, in a special Pulman for Memphis. Speaking to 8,000 people in a tent located on the line between Girard and Phoenix* 'City, Ala,, Sunday after noon, governor William W. Brandon, of Alabama, made an appeal for law observance and asked the co-opera tion of the people in enforcing the prohibition laws. The governor as serted that if force is necessary, it will be applied. He said he would use every dollar in the treasury if necessary for the enforcement of the law. Ah a result of Brandon's visit, chief enforcement officer Walter Mc Adory, who accompanied him, will open an office in Girard. and direct activities against prohibition law violators. Alexander I), Mebane, who died at Lockhart, Texas, Monday night, got only an inch or two in the newspapers whereas had he been a politician of prominence or a military genius the account would have been a column or so with a picture or two thrown in for good measure; but Mr. Mebane was a 1 benefactor of humanity, and there's no comparison in his real value to humanity and that of many of the men who have held office and. dicta ted the country's foreign policy and had a hand in framing its laws. It was this Texas farmer who originat ed a sjiecies of cotton with a fifth lock, thereby adding untold millions to the income of the South, his dis covery being proclaimed by Dr. Sea man A. Knapp as the greatest ad vance in the histor?* of the staple.? Chester Reporter. What They Suy About I'm. Tlu* Camden Chronicle celebrated its 34th birthday Friday. It was es tablished thirty-four years ago by \V. I). McDowell, at present Probate Judge, and several changes of owner shi p have taken place during these years. H. I). Niles is now o'wner and editor of the paper. Under his man agement the paper has made splen did progress. Mr Niles has one of the best equipped plants it) the state. ? . Wateree Messenger. The Camden Chronicle, one of the brightest and most interesting week lies in the state, celebrated its thirty fourth birthday last week. The Chron icle is a combination of three papers, having taken over during its career The Camden News and the Camden Journal. H. P. Niles is the present editor and publisher. ? Greenville News. We have pleasure in extending con gratulations to the esteemed Camden Chronicle on completion of thirty-four years of active service in its commun ity, Camden. During these years ii has made progress and is now a good paper and under capable management which assures continued valuable helpfulness to that which materially aids in (he upward grout h of those whom i* serves. Kershaw Kin. j .J. Clyde Bates, young mat: well j known in Spartanburg, and former I moving picture operator, was shot I and kille<l Tuesday morning by Thom as Couch in the home of the latter I near Saxon Mills. Kural Policeman ! ( ooksey, who arrested Couch soon ! afterwards. ^ a i? 1 that Couch admitted j the shooting, and said that he killed 1 Sates because of Bates' attentions [to his (Couch's) wife. \ shotgun was used, the load entering Bates' f i iee k . an.l causing instant death, i ('(?in h and h;s wife wcro bulged in Ba t < s was tried it a leceji! term of court for desertion and non-sup ;>oi t of ht^ w lie an I < hi Id ten. and sen tenced to :i Mm on the th.uingang. ;r. .ieu of whu h In u;i> to t;.\- them | :o p,.| rn<"-.'n He wa- j:.d. < bond J th-- p,t\n,?!' of the iii<?n'! \ sfi i pi rid f T he " I ea Hounds " 1 1 . (iiee:v ?!!?," remark- The Pied-' mont . "'hen is mori ? epulsive ? pee t aele than that of a h:neh of s; :\ young-ter- iamyciiiv: arotind drviB" "ton"' anil < thei pla< ? - on the j principal street- for hour- and who I as Mayor Harvev remarks, ojj: ie pass-! ing gul- and wnmcn and make mor > I m les.s crude remarks about them." j Th< habit in t?recn\ille is not pe culiar to that citv It abounds here and, we >uppo.i", :n other iities of this part o! ?he rmnitrv generally enough to He reckoned as a wide spread and rommon evil. And if >* a nuisance. "These filthy liltii fftafer.s ought to he swept off the sidewalk with the other garbage." The Piedmont re marks, in an onslaught of eondemna tion against them, and we iud hardly become courageous enough to assert that the language is any t/>?> strong against this clasn of idler?. Watrh Ihe date on yo?r label thi* week. PITHY PARAGRAPHS. (Spartanburg Citizen.) No matter if he is a bore, he can get by if he flatters you. A man may have falae teeth ami yet apeak nothing but the truth. An, optimist in one who believed he get? full measure at the tilling ?ta lion. Mo?t of us have brains; the trouble itr that so few of uA know how to use them. It begins to look as if they had the wrong set of men on the Florida chaingang. The more limited a man's vocabu lary, the more frequently he uses the propound . If you are looking for a soft job you might get on the chaingang and be made n trusty. A woman can keep a secret. No ,wift; ever tolls all that .ihe knows about her husband. If nature never i^ade a rhistake, how do. you explain the man who thinka he is pretty? s Sometimes a chap thinks he is win ning a peach, only to find that he has been handed a lemon. We suspect tfiat some men travel the straight and narrow path simply to be able to brag about it. Parents are funny people. At first they teach a child to talk, and then they try to teach it to keep quiet. 11' you want to bore a youth of to day, dig up a dime novel of a genera tion ago and make him read it. And as' often as not you can keep both your friend and your money by refusing, to go on your friend's note. The Akron Press tells us that three burglars entered a Seattle filling sta tion and escaped without losing any thing. A farmer down in Sumter County disposed of the spifiach off eight acres to the Sumter ca finery for more than eighty dollars .per acre, and will now plant these acres in tomatoes, notes Chester Reporter. "There are some people," it declares, "that say a can nery is difficult to operate, and it probably is, but it looks like a mighty good thing to have about, especially in boll weevil times, to help out like the one in Sumter county seems to be doing." Attempt to Burn School Building. On Monday morning, between the hours of 10 and 11 o'clock, while the school was in session a deliberate at tempt was mndo to set fire to the ^school building. Very fortunately thel fire, which was started under the south wing ol' the building, was dis covered before it had time to get un der headway and was quickly, extin guished with buckets of water. Ex.- 1 celsior, kindling wood and paper ha? 1 j been carefully laid for the purpose j *Ad the match applied, evidencing the fact of the deliberate purpose of the perpetrator of the deed to burn the building. The matter is undergoing in vestigation. ? Kershaw Era. , , It takes fourteen circuit judges and fourteen solicitors and numerous spe cial judges to keep the courts of tho State from becoming congested with criminal cases, but the pardon board the other day recommended forty convicts to the governor for "clemency." ? Newberry Observer * A boy six ypars old swallowed a tobacco tag in an Anderson school Monday. The teacher saw Clyde Ash ley crying and asked him what was tho matter. He told her that he had a tobacco tag in his mouth and had swallowed it. She immediately took tho boy home, a physician was called, and an anaesthetic had to be admin istered before the physician could get the tag from the boy's throat. The tag was removed, but the physician stated that the boy would be subject to pneumonia as a result. The General Electric company has offered a reward of $5,000 for the ar rest of two men named Crandnll and! Fairbanks for the kidnapping of the <5year old son of E. T\ \V. Alexander, one of its consulting engineers, last | week. The boy was recovere 1 oa Thursday night. THEIR DAY IS COMING. (, 1' lom the Greenville News. > A wealthy Kentuckian has ju.-t donated $1,000,000 and '>,000 acres of land for the educational, agricultural and economic development in the I mountain.- of Kastern Kentucky, t .section famous in history and tradi tion as scenes of bloodsheds lawless ness and feud-', and for men of unu sua I fortitude and courage. Those who are acquainted with the land and people of the Southern Appalachians' will hail with delight the ;.nnou/e? merit of this magnificent vr : t" t for .i splendid service. It i.- sale to ?ay that it this educatior.nl nio.ement unoer capable supervision it will ac complish nioi'i a?ii lasting pio-jivs.. : :i the hill- of K^n'irky during 'he i: -\t nerat ion thai- ha- bet r. complished by force since the I'ni'ed Slates aud the -tate have been mi ^ armed forces into that section. T h ? ? Southern Appalachian tevrius is one of the most picturesque sec tion- of tin* continent, and while i* ha- lw( n praised in song and stor\ it has come in for a lot of bad advei fi-ing most of it exaggerated and on - deserved. Isolated and cut off from tin- balance of the world b> lack of f i a n s port at i on and traveling fa? ili 'ics. the pe o p I e of this region, have been forced t<> get along with irs* assistance and information from th> govei nment than any other people of the country, but for the most pari this policy if? the past ha? suited the people. They wanted to "hoe their own row." for they are the direct descendants of the pioneer-* who blaz ed the way and carried the first sign* of civilization into this region, and they have inherited the strength, manhood, love of liberty and hatred of oppression of their ancestors. Their ancestors drove the Indians out of the territory, helped to throw off the yoke of Great Britain and then c?T?e back j to live in peace. They deliberately j chose the isolated regions so that they ENORMOUS DEMAND FOR DR. THACHER'S LIVER AND BLOOI) SYRUP ASTOUNDS DRUGGISTS V ? ? M ? ic..' ? "Nothing Like It Has Ever Been Seen Here ?Before," Declares Enthusiastic ..Druggist'. Predicts Universal Use. ?m .. -4 ly ? .v Never before, perhaps, within the memory of the oldest inhabitant has any medicine ever approached the remark, able record that is now being made here by Dr. Thacherfi Liver and Blood Syrup. In tact, the demand for this celebrated prescription \m been so phenomenal that druggists are amassed. Nothing like it has ever been seen here before. Thousands of ques. tions are being asked daily all over the city concerning the preparation and people of all classes, and in all walks of life are obtaining a supply from the local druggists in order to tesi the remedy for themselves. "In all my experience since I have been in the drug business , I have never seen anything like the number of people from l'ar unci near crowd ing our store every day and asking for information concerning Dr. Thaeher's Liver and Blood Syrup," .declarod one Ideal jlruggist yester day. "Of course we had heard of Ih\ Thaeher's Liver and jftlood Syrup and knew * Something of its remarkable merits, t?but we were certainly not prepared for aything like the demand that has resulted here for it," he continued. * "Really I presume 1 never before realized what a large percentage of our people there ar^> who are auffer ?ing from some form of liver or sto* maeh trouble. Many of them do not consider their condition serious, but are really miserable and anxious to tind relief and are evidently convince ed that Dr. Thaeher's Liver and Mood Kymp will bring that relief. And from the experience of others who have been relieved of similar trou bles by means of this remedy and willingly tell it to the world, it seems to me that they are certainly justi fied in their belief that Dr. Thaeh er's prescription is what, they need. "Constipation, billiousness, indiges could *jftsh, move about and live as they pleased without outside inter ference. The pioneer's spirit of love for liberty in all thing.-! and hatred of oppression of any kind burned bright ly within their hearts and they strug gled long and valiantly and suffered much in older that they might be se j cure in a section where they could enjoy the things they loved and lx* free from the things they hated. For years and years they were largely out of touch with the govern ment and the balance of the country and they governed themselves with simple codes of unwritten law. Al most the first contact they had with the Federal Government was when revenue agents came among them to collect the whiskey tax and destroy their stills. It was difficult for the mountaineers to understand the jus tice of this, and for generation after generation they resisted what they deemed encroachments upon their rights with the same fierce spirit that their forefathers showed in settling the country. They were not rich in money. About all they had was their land, cabins, squirrel rifles, cornbread and meat. They could not build good roads and schools and the government gavesthpm little attention save by rev enue agents. Conditions arc change ii>tr now. however, and good roads tion, stomach troubles, henduih^, coated tongues,, gas formation, burn' ing pains in stomach, shortness 0f breath, dizziness, spots before the eyes, night sweats, rheumatic pains, loss of sleep, a tired feeling and coughs and colds seem to be the com plaints of the majority of the people who call and some of them are al ready reporting very satisfaotory re sults after a course of Dr. Thachor's treatment.. s "Another compelling motive that doubtless has attracted many is the magnanimous offer made by the Thacher Laboratories, which virtual ly amounts to a free trial. They have given us and all other dealers who handle Dr. Thacher's Liver and Blood Syrup, positive, orders to return the money paid for the first bottle if the tiistomer declares he or she has re ceived no benefit from taking it. "1 don't pose as a prophot, but from the way the interest in this medicine is growing, I can safely predict that Dr. Thacher's Liver and Blood Syrup will soon be regarded as a standard household remedy and that before long the Thacher Labo ratories will be taxed to the limit to supply the demand. Dr. Thach er's Liver and Blood Syrup is sold in Camden by Zemp & DePass. arc being: built, unci good schools es tablished throughout the Southern Appalachian region, bringing its peo ple into closer contact with the out side world and giving them new eon captions of the advantages of more modern life. They were at first louth to give up the privileges which isolation afforded them, but it did not' take long to Bee that the new civili zation had something still better to offer them and their children. Moun tain men will always be free men ami resist oppression, and being peopleof keen perception, honest and fearless hearts, they stand today as one of the finest examples of American citi zenship and a nucleus which guaran tees that this government will con tinue to stand and function upon the foundation of right and liberty as its founders intended it should. The mountain section of the South and it? contiguous territory is the j last great unpolluted reservoir of j the Anglo-Saxon face in this country, j and in the days to come it will not. j only stand as a bulwark for th? pres j citation of the republic and safety j of the country, but it will furnish the j social, religious and political leaders i in a righteous cause against the force ' of oligarchy and oppression, re-es | tablish the/faith of their fathers and : hold it up' as a beacon light to all : liberty-loving, and Christian people. S.V2V00 F. (). n. Factor> THIS IS THE CAR FOR ECONOMICAL TRANSPORTATION. SMITH'S GARAGE Announces that it is now selling' and ser vicing C / I EY R OLET Automobiles in Camden. ,sn' ! 1 ,-i nJ-' "? ir.e Automobile business for 22 years. I turned to the CHKY'ROLKT because it lead? ?iil automobile?: in gasoline, mileage and low oil ? "n-j ri,pt!on. and provides the most economical trans portation a \ a liable. } PRICES : F. O. R. Factory. "J I'.-mftengrr Roadster, $niO.(H) 2 Pan#ifns:er Coiipr. J6H0.00 I I'm* Monger <oarh, SH50.00 ? I'aXsr njfrr Sedan, $860.W NOW ON EASY TEfcMS