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fil CAP'EN CHRONICLE II. D. MI.KS editor and Publisher * -?-,...^>..4. . I., I l>l i - 1 1 ? (I I've; y I' r.'iits ul No. 1100 -vt ? ? * t a i .. 1 enterod at the Cam to ; "u' '? 1 wrol.it i po t office as Hccond cla^a mail unifier. IfTte p or a ft ft. urn faindtn, S. Friday. June 22, WW. That wa* .? i?it of had publicity Ker shaw County received in the press of the utaU this week, when u magis trate and his deputy (?f thin county ' Wfiv locked up in another town and heavily fined on a charge of drunk and transporting whisKty, We know nothing of tj^e affair except. ,the news paper accounts. Enemies of pfohi billon make tine eupital out of such affairs and it is to be regretted that1 tfu> State has such officers in its em ploy. Hoth have been summoned be for# the Governor to show cause why they should not be deprived of office, and we feel sure that the Governor will do his duty. City Council hus an advertisement ia thU week's paper calling attention to the fact that another bond issue will have to be voted in order to carry on the program of paving now out lined and we feel sure that it will be heartily supported. Camden Js ex ceedingly fortunate in being able to have this additional work done at the name figures contracted for in the first- instance, while cities and towns around us are having to pay a much higher rate for, the same class of w->rk. The benefits already arising from the partial paving is so marked and all so well ipleased with the added beauty to our streets that the whole citizenship ha* caught the spirit of thV times and we feel sure the ad ditional amount asked for on both projects will be? readily petitioned for and thus show' the Council the entire city is behind them in their effort# at giving us the long wished for im provements. in the mad race to get t he re in a hu'rry it is nearly always the case where the innocent have to suffer in* tlr- auto, mi>haps. Several weeks ago a g-ntleman tame near killing his eni. in- family, si-me of them - being , maimed and scarred for life. In an account of the unfortunate affair we rea l in neighboring paper whore the man doing the dri\ing admitted that In \TT?s driving to<? fast and blame<l th.it as the cause. lie stated that on the Sunday before he had - made 11:,- -ame distance m two hours and ten minutes and that he had left, home that morning with the intention of making it in two hours or less. He admitted that he was making' fifty miles per hour at the time of the ac cident and members of the party slated that they begged him all the way to drive more safely, but their pl-'n* were unavailing. The pity is that the innocent have to suffer. .0 easiest thing on earth to lose is a good reputation, remarks the Sumter Item, and the hardest to lose is a bad reputation. t DOES IT !?AY? Columbus, (la., Sun. Advertising made the Victrola dog famous. I' has made the cash register a big hi >'her to retailers all over the wu: td. has introduced .the world to a substitute i'ii *ole leather. '? displacing the truck horse with ?10 horse power trucks. I* has helped you to in apprecia tion of Stetson hats, Walk-Over Shoes Houglas and Krnerson shoes. !? has made the hand-written letter an oddity it) bu -mess. It has put ban oil on heads where ti i hair oil would do an> good and on heads where no hair oil was need ed ha? put < a ,ton:i down your t|;- Kit. left hrisfle.> in umr gums, and tl n come along with .? llubberset ai. f taken ? hem >m t . : mhs pu' Sn.'otluiit . IYI>*o> . t r"T? I 1 \ , nji-nt ot \ i?u r (eet h Jt has put :t (inlete aifaiH-t >?-nt ha. I. "its put Mi: rim* in youi eye. sold y<>\. < utuura t'??i pimples, Pears for tl hath arul \ for t h ** ( h I ? ; * has put Arrow' collar> arouml yu-.* tu*i k an t I } ??r<<u!vi your w: r <? (. .:a,\uheu >ii .\arit. I?? anv il ax ><>u wi.-h. ami a.h er!ij>injr has H ! > ? I ? i t i IK it uh iJiilu 1\ . ? yet -virv- o^np'r1 n?fc_ "I'nr* A ? -.'tsir.e IV -? nry 1' j:d f i a- nr.irlt rn??n?*y j * i i*i?* !<ank as i> : e:>or!e<i, it dot-* i 'hnt he mi^H ? i ?mi-tlur.c atn*j * 'hat Hjfht " ffionl <ftmr of his Mt ?>???. -ayi th<- C^f-olina Citizen. '?^Trtrrtmr rnrrrT+y ?rt. va! Jp of taxable* property in 1920 with $8i?. t64,800. In 1020 2&.H per cent of the arc* of Ofangebtrr? rrmnty W9* r1an*i#M Wfrodlaml, ncr+Hge being 213.184. NOAII WKIIHTKK. Frank A. Muiwey, owner of a chain of newspapers, has udded the Now York Evening Globe to his string., The Globe was founded by Noah Webster in 171M. Fie wrote <Ju? ring his editorship t hat the paper distressed his soul and harassed hiit notV4tM every day, oying to th?- fr?-. tjoeney of typographical error#. We cannot imagine work less congenial to the sensitive precision who writes spelling books and dictionaries than newspaper work. Newspapers are made so hurriedly that errors creep in uvory issue which are of sty-h a na ture an tO spoil the day for the philo logist. It is a coincidence that the same week which brought news of the (I lobe's -sale also marked the 8Mb an niversary Of Noah Webster's death. 'On the occasion of this anniversary, George MarcelluH Bailey writes the following' appreciation of Webster in the Houston Post; 'Gome with uh, JetTersonian Philos ophy, aud lot us bow together at tho >grave of one of the dearest frlertd# we ever had ? old Noah Webster, who died just eighty years ago today in his 85th year. We lay aside the ''Unabridged" and reca f the old Blue Hack Speller he gave us, which was the school book of fir Jit magnitude during the first hundred years of the life of tho Great Kepublic. The mod erns have banished it, as they have banished , MeGutTey's Readers, but they n evvhr produced a textbook that gave us n#ny good spellers. The old Bluu^Bacfe opened tho~<loor of knowl edge for fcome of the greatest men the country ever knew, and many of 'them found between its> covers all the book larnln' they ever had. Even now wo visualize the Lincolns and Crocketts and a host frT their contem poraries poring over the contents of the old Blue- Hack in the flickering light of pine knot fires out there in the great arboreal silence of the un fettered West, lator to emerge from their solitude into the white light of llama and glory. Who shall deny old Noah his rightful niche in the Hall of Fame, and who shall say that there ever has boon or ever can be a school book that played such a part in the moulding of a nation as the old Blue- Back Speller that he gave us." We do not think it an exaggera tion to say that Webster ' made the most notable and important contribu tion to American literature ever made by any person. lli.s dictionary and his Blue-Back Speller -long since took their places on the shelves of the classics. The speller is now out of use, but his dictionary grows richer and more pop ular with the passing of years for it has had the good fortune to continue ill the h'ands of editors worthy of the great master. Today Webster's "In ternational" is the biggest and most important reference book in the fam ily or office library. The Blue- Back Speller was the moat printed of all the American < book*. At the very least 100,000,000 copies of it must have been sold- We j have no recent statistics at hand, but an old* encyclopedia says that by 1880 no less than 80,000,000 copies of it had been sold. The speller had . a V. marked influence upon the education and culture of Americans up to the beginning of the 20th century when other spellers and other systems sup erceded it. ' Webster's claim to fame rests pri marily upon his authorship of the speller arid the dictionary and his his tory <>X words. But he was a man of ; distinctly^ in other fields. Webster J was an able political , essayist at a f tim#? when the controversial political J paper carried weight. He was the au- 1 thor ot' a^iistory of the United States ' a history of France, and other similar [ works. He was one of the founders of ; Amherst college and a member of its i faculty. He was a lawyer, a newspa per editor, a school teacher, and serv ed in the State Legislature of Massa- j chu*etts. Incidentally he was* a des cendant on his mother's side of Gover nor Bradford. -Montgomery Adver t i.ser. A tremendous sen monster of a rae species, was captured in. Florida waters otf the coast of Miami, a few <lays It is known as Indo-Pa cifio hask:ng shark. Its length is '<.r> feet and its weight is estimate*! at 10.000 pounds. These fish arc said to l>?- .tv!! nut infrequently in tropical wj.'e.s, hut are seldom attracted be i ail e of their great strength. They are inoffensive ??xc??pt when aroused.' Th.*- > !?? W..I-- ha r punned several times Uut r,t>i :ina!i> killed until ii l>oii . m steel bullets had been filvd at ion, high-powered ntles. If s.n ?<! the monster i- feeing .- ripped f"i the American Museum of N a rural History in New York. Governor Smith of New York says he will not be a candidate for the nomination in. the Ucmo era tic national convention next year. ; Dr. George T. Harding, father of Preakient - Harding, celebrated his * TOfti BlrthAff TtfWday at Marion, ^ Ohio. _ .? GRNBRAL NEWS *otks of Inherent (lathered From #an> 8ource?> Prohibition officers on Saturday ar rested Dorothy Swarthout, 22, as the driver of u booze carrying truck, one of a train of ? fifteen earrying liquor from* (Canada to New York. The ar rest was made near Schroon Lake, The Ki?l was held in $ 1.6(H) bail. Of ficers also got a {300- gal Ion still near the same place. Knauth, Nachodjfe Kuhne, a 70-year old Wall, street banking house, went into involuntary bankruptey Saturday with liabilities of $11,000,000. This is the fourth big Wall street concern to fail within the past three weeks. George Victor de Hrodes, 85, law student of New Y^rk, on Saturday shot his mother to death in a Wash ington boarding house just a few hours after they had arrived in the capital. De Brodes was arrested im mediately, and the police believe he had lost Ms mind brooding over the ill healDf of his mother and also a sister ytvho is in a Washington hospi tal. y The Croker will case which was in progress in a Dublin court for ten days or more, ended Saturday in favor of the widow* Mrs. Bula Croker. The .children of Croker sought to break the will of their father on the ground that he was of unsound mind at the time of making the will in which he left practically his entire estate to his second wife. 4 Joseph Jacobs, New ? York- ? hotel waiter, who saved $40,000 during a period of. eighteen years, working seventeen hours a day, has lost his fortune through a Wall street broker I ago house, where he was promised big returns for his investments. ... J Undent he urging of Mayor Ilylan, | New York bricklayers havij signed j contracts to work for a period of two ' yeafB on city school building at ft i rate of $12 a day. Under the agree I ment, if the bricklayers stick, $60, 000,000 will be spent on school build ings during the next two years. Lieut. Oakley (?. Kelly, one of the two aviators who recently crossed the United States in twenty-six hours, was married in Washington Friday to Miss Mary M. Watson.. Frederick Upham, treasurer of the Republican national committee, in a London interview on Saturday, pre dicted the re- nomination of President Harding by the Republicans, and the nomination of Henry Ford for the Presidency on a third ticket. The Story of Our States Br JONATHAN BRACE XL1I. ? -IDAHO TI'IK year * 18?9 saw! the stare in our flog In crease from thirty-eight to forty-two. for four states were added to the Union in tnai yenr. In 3890 two more states were admitted, the first of which wan Idaho, so that during these two years, the manufacturer must have been kept busy turn- * Ing out new flags with the prop er number of stars. Idaho Is very tnontalnous and the name Is derived from the Shoshone Indian word meaning "gem of mountains." The first white explorers were undoubtedly Lewis and Clark on their memorable trip In 1804-5. Idaho was a part of Oregon territory, which was Jointly oc cupied by British and Americans until the Treaty of 1840 definite ly turned over to the United States; the country south of the 49th " parallel. In 186:* Idaho was organized as a territory, with an -area three times the size V)f the present state, as it in cluded Montana and part of Wyoming. The next year Mon tana was set off for a territory by Itself, and In 18(V3 Wyoming was organized so that in 189U when Idaho was admitted as the forty-third state of the Un ion, its area was reduced to 8.'*. 888 square miles. Even so It ranks as the eleventh stute in size. The rapid settlement of Idaho was due to the discovery of geld, the same cause which so rapidly built up t^e adjacent states. It u as in lSflB that gold was found at i'oeur d'Alene In th?* northern part of the state, and minors Im mediately tlocked to the state In great numtfer*. There was serious labor trou ble in tho (,'oeur d'Alene sec tion in 1892 and again in 1899 when martial law was estab lished until peace between the miners and mine owners was effected. ldeh?> is ti * t h from the end In the list of Mate* according to ?**?! AWAollfiffly has - but four presidential elector*. But the state is developing rap Idly. ' ' (OfcrtteCtvr* Si**p?p?> Byndtcat*.) HAYS MIXTURE EFFECTIVE. ? V Wftd<Sbaro Man Claims 100 Per Cent For Weevil Poison. * Mr., K. U. Thurman, forroe/ly of this county, but who is now residing at Cheraw, sends the* following letter under date of May 28th, to Mr. J. L. Moseley. who is also agent for Hill's Mixture in Kijfshaw County: "Mr. J. J. Little, my sub agent at Wadesboro, N. Co h4s just completed the following experiment with Hill's Mixture and met with the following rertults ; "Under a wire screen made of fly netting he placed twelve weevils on the same stalks of cotton on which he found the weevils in the fleld. On th4se fctalks of totton he placed Hill's Mixture at the rpte of one gallon per acre. He got 100 per cent kill with the Hill's Mixture. He tried the same experiment with the "Home Hrtfw" mixture (that is, Cal. Arsenate and Molasses, mixed as follows: 2 lbs. of Cal. Arsenate, lgal. of water) and out of twelve weevils he got a kill of three. It is the same old story 'IIlll's Mixture' again goes over the top and wins the tight against all odds. "Thought it might interest you to know that Hill's Mixture is just as ef fective in South Carolina and North Carolina as it is in Georgia." "I. -IT ' I Five-year-old John Leman was trampled to death by a flock of stam peded sheep at Rockyford, Colorado, a few days ago. HAMBONE'S MEDITATIONS AH HEAHP A <3 ENTMAM 5 AY HE SPEC' TIMES' 6WIWE 61 T BETTUH,BUT Law/ Times ain' make no D IFFUNCB Wlt> Mf, NO-HOW, CASE AHS "BIN 'BROKE ALL MAH .UFEl f*-N? - Copyright, 1921 by McClure Ne wtp?p?r Syndic**, We cordially, invite our friend* and the public gen erally to Visit us in our new store ^ $he Corner of Broad and DeKalb streets, where we are better prepared to serve the wants of the ladies in th* ready-to-wear line. * 0 Ex-Senator Fall of New Mexico, in a London interview on 'Saturday, pre-' dieted a return to light ? wines and beer in the United States. MORE ROAD PAVING WORK. At a meeting of the Permanent Road Commission which was held yesterday, contracts were awarded for four miles of asphaltic concrete to be laid on the Sumter-Camden road, and for one and eighty-five hun dredths miles of the same construc tion on the Sumter-Mayesvill^ road. The Harllee-Thrash Construction Company of Florence secured the con tract for the Sumter-Camden road and the work on the Sumter-Mayes villo road wont to the Powell Con struction Company. The Powell con striction Company are now engaged in construction work in the county, but the Harllee-Thrash company is a now one fop Sumter eounty work. , The price set for the Camden road work was $96,054. 9ft For Mayes ville road, $65,110.45. The South Carolina Construction Company, Columbia, was awarded the contract for four bridges of creoso ted timbers on the Mayesville road at a cost of $8,912.81. W. B. Boyle Company of Sjumter, and the Austin Bridge Company, Atlanta, also bid. ? Sumter Herald. y t-r f ' ' There is no good reason why anyone in this ' ' r ^ V' County should not make a crop of cotton this VX. year so far as the Boll Weevil is concerned, be :f t ^ ? . *? * ^ 0 ? * * cause I have a poison that is 100 per; cent effic ient. . ; i Don't take my word for it, but ask any of the following gentlemen who have already used it this season: Messrs. Henry Savage, F. M. Woo- . ten, Charley McCaskill, Ben Wylie Gettys, C. M. Shiver, or W. H. Shiver. If you want Hill's Mixture and it is inconven ient to pay cash I can use an approved paper in settlement. Now is the time to start to.using it ? bon't wait until the weevil has your bottom crop. I will be glad to make a test for you, if you - are in doubt, and show you that Hifl's Mixture , will kill all the weevils as we claim. 7 . V J. L Moseky, Camc^n, S.C. r. > :ch c S- . ? TiTI - 7