Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Queer Feelings ??Some time ago, I was very Irregular," writr* Mrs. Cora Roble, of Pikevllle, Ky. "I suffered a great deal, and knew I must do something for this condition. I suffered mostly with my back and a weakness in my limbs, 1 would have drsad ful headaches. I had hot flashes ?nd very queer feelings, and oh. how my head hurt I 1 read ol CARDIII The Woman's Tonic and of others, who seemed to have the same troubles I had, being benefited, so I began to use iL 1 found it most bene ficial. I took several bottles . . . , and was made so much better 1 didn't have any more trouble of this kind. It reg ulated me." Cardui has been found very helpful in the correction of many cases of painful female dis orders, such as Mrs. Robie mentions above. If vou suffer as she did, take Cardui? a purely vegetable, medicinal tonic, in use for more than 40 years. It should help you. Sold Everywhere. E 90 Fact* About South Carolina. (By the- Associated Press.) Allotments ?)1' Federal aid to South Carolina for roadf aggregated $0,012, ul?iJ at the undo!' June. 'l'hv earliest settlement t?f the Pee } >rc region of South Carolina- dates { i u m a hi- lit jthe yea r 1 7.'! 1 . During the War Between the States thv Confederate government main tained a commissary at the town of Li* tie Kock in South Carolina. Textile manufacturing; is the princi pal industry in Dillon county; the an nual cotmn mill output iti I Hli I was $1,000,000 in 1 922, Pianos, organs, and other musical instruments were returned at $10,440 for taxation purposes in Calhoun county in 1922. Three water, light and power com panies were listed in Union county last year for taxation purposes. The average cost of maintaining roads in the State highway system of South Carolina for the first h^lf of thU year was at the rate of $282.49 pc- mile per year. Lancaster county received $7,638.03 from the motor vehicle license fund an i $4,f>92.98 from the gasoline tax in 1.922 for use on public roads. Bamberg county in 1922 raised G,000. bales of cotton, valued at $690, 000. There were <>,900 mules, 2.300 horses and 33,000 hogs on Aiken county farms on January 1, 1923. Forty-nine patients at the South Carolina State Hospital on December 31. 1922, were from Abbeville county. Chest erfivld County spent $18.99 per pupil on public education during the year 1922. IVrSonni property returned foi tax ation by Marlboro county residents in' 1922. was valued at $2,500,390. C i\ envil 1?* county bakers had $40,000 000 invested in the business in 1922 i and their products were valued at $1 U.919. ( i;Tu'ia!> of l.au:en> t ountj are W. Tliompsoii, auditor; C. A. Power, cou t clerk; II. It. Owings, coroner;] O. CI. Tliu'mn.Miii. probate judge; S. C. Keul, shi i itf; .1. I). VV Watts, super- j vi~or; P. T WiJ;nr, i-up-.-rintendent <?t | cdu<a'. ion .?! i i'. I' Young. tu-fisurci. > ( "a > i -nd' i \ f i ? iin* i s raided I 3.20U,??"!? pouinl- i.ibtvt., \a!ued a; ' $?.'? .con r. i;?2 2 A .< I32.?ia- v - -i in1 t o; m:;:< it: II.. hi vnd . ; n I ,?22 ; :i?:' ? rir proittict v.-i~ v:? ?? ??? ?? i ? ? i A i.; . Tv 1 n.teM Stat- ? ' ,? y . , !.!??? v > ... ; .. . . a;> I f' ' !. - : I ? ; J:.,' , .. . P V ? ? ? - . a . .. ?" . ?' . ( ?. ' .... ? ! ( i . . . . ? . : i ? l : . . ... . . - A : ? H I ? i ? ! >v V 1 ?" ' r. | . t ? ? ? * .?:?? <?; <)(??: \ - . ' : : . : ? i ? WOULDN'T BE WITHOUT IT Suffered 29 year# Before Find ing Rajief in Dr. Thatcher's Liver and Blood Syrup. "i wouldn't I x? without a bottle of I>;\ Thach^r's Liver and Wood Syrup in my house for anything," said A. I. Walker, lood N. Third St., Wilming ton, N. ('. "After 1 had tUfTered twenty-nine years with an acid stomach and had i- all ovtii and had spent a small tot turn* without Ending n-Jjef I read about I >?.' Thicher's Liver and Blood Syrup and gut ">*? a bottle. It did me ^o much good I took (four more buttles and by the time I had' finished them up I, couldn't toll that I had ever hid arid Stomach. No nmre heart b\u nr no more indigestion and my skin is el6*u..uJ*d healthy. I eat any thing: 1 want and it does not hurt me." Dr. Thachei's Liver and Blood Sy uip is sold by all druggists and if you an- not satisfied the purchase price will bo refunded. Hon. Haseom Slernp is to take uj) his duties a.s private secretary to the provident next week. WOMAN EXPERT IS GIVEN CARE OF ZOO REPTILES Miss Joan Proctor Appointed Curator in London Zoo. London. ? Snakes and crocodiles art not, perhaps, the most pleasant crea-' tures with which to live, but Miss Joan Proctor evidently thinks other wise. This young Englishwoman has just been appointed curator 6f the reptile house at the London Zoo logical Gardens, where she will have entire charge of the cobras, the py thons, the alligators and all the other reptiles. Miss J'roctor's grandfather was a fatuous entomologist, so possibly her Interest and aptitude In the subject are Inherited. It certainly looks as though a?iiu la KV'ni i-u become as well known as he was, for already she Is looked on by zoologists as one of the greatest of snake experts. When In her very early teens she happened to visit the chief of the rep tile department at the South Kensing ton Natural History museum and so astonished him by her knowledge of opbJology ? she had kept snakes and lleards as pets since her tenth birth day ? that he offered to train her In the subject. Accordingly, as sooq as she left school she became Doctor Boulenger's assistant, at the age of eighteen, and when he resigned ahe was appointed to his post. The young expert came Into real contact with the zoological society at the age of nineteen when she read her first paper, on pit snakes, before them. A year later they made her F. Z. S. At the beginning of July she gained another distinction by being elected F. IV. S., Kellow of the Llnnean. society, one of the foremost scientific organi zations In the world. Being surrounded by snakes during her attendance at the zoo apparently la not enough for Miss Proctor, and ahe keeps aix Brazilian snakes in a glass cage in her drawing room. These were sunt her as a gift. Noted scien tists in South America and South Africa have frequently sent rare and deadly reptiles to Kngland, knowing her Interest, and most of the?e she keeps at her ,bwn home.' __ I HAMBONE'S MEDITATIONS I PEW WK UTS MLU2 STRAINIM' FUH T' 6?T OUT IN DE 5 PoT-LI 6H T GfN'ALLY AINT WUTK lookim' At wen t>EY I gits i>ahS l|M. 19 21 by McDu't N Sy^<J;C??. THE NEW "BITFCO" FORGE $10.00 WW?K l<\ |t| | K\I ?I K<?R?;K COMf'AN ^ With Hi. '-Pie. I' S!fv! Hearth. Rest Low Pris/eii mad?\ Full 18-ine!. ii:an vUr 1 n - it! c- Hearth. Made of one piece preyed Has a first-clap? bi< w rr in ni?*t-tijrM (ir.-ir Case and Cut Steel r*ear;. COLUMBIA SUPPLY COMPANY ? 823 Weal Gervais St. Columbia, S. C. AVERAGE WORK WEEK DECLINES ? ' ? ? ?? ?'? ? Cut Down 36 Minutes in Last Two Years? Domestlo Serv ants Have Long Hours. N?w York. ? The length of the working w^ek of the average Ameri can employe hu.s declined minuter lu the lust two yearn, according to a statement by the National Bureau of Economic Research, summarising the results of a natlou wide iuvestl gation which was undertaken for tfce business cycle committee of President Harding's conference on unemploy ment, Outlining the results of the lo vestlgation, Dr. Wiiiford I. King, of' the staff of the nationui bureau of ecouomlc research, uuder whose su pervision the facts were gathered, said : "According to some historians, our great-grandfathers thought twelve hours a reasonable day's work. For more than a hundred years, however, the length of the working day has been declining steadily until the av erage American In the first quarter of 1922 was expected by his employer to work only 60.8 hours a week, Just a trifle more than the eight hours for six day* set forth as au ideal by re formers of a generation or two ago. The detailed figures covering all In dustries In the United States show that the length of the working week declined 86 minutes during the two years covered by the study." Domestics Work Longest Hours. Of all classes of employers report ing, those engaged, in renderlug do mestic and personal service record the longest full-time hours for those working under their direction, the av erage being idlghtly more thau eight liters dally for a seven-day week. Farmers and retail merchants each require over fifty-three hours of work per we??k from their employees. Em ployers in a considerable group of in dustries usually call for less than forty eight hours per week from their workers. This group includes build ing and construction, finance, public and professional service, paper and printing establishments, and factories making textiles, clothing, leather and leather goods. ?'The figures presented In the re port," continued Dr. King, "indicate the man who Is anxious to have a steady Job in dull times as well as in good times should seek a position with a small employer. However, tf he followed this course during the last few years, he may have discovered that he gained less than he expected by the choice, for the tables show that In the last quarter for which re ports are available, he was asked to work fifty-three hours each week in the small enterprise instead of the 47.8 that the large establishment on the average, required him to serve. This difference Is partly accounted for by the fact that farmers form so large a portion of small employers. Big Firm*, Shorter Hours. "However, the farmers are not the only ones of this class thpt call for longer hours than the average. In nine out of seventeen industries, em ployers hiring fewer than twenty-one workers required their employees to work over fifty-four hours per week In the first quarter of 1022, In the group employing twenty-one to 100 workers, long hours for employees proved to be even more common than In the smaller enterprises ai the same date, for twelve out of seventeen In dustrial groups had full time hours of more than fifty per week. Only In concerns employing over 100 men were shorter hours the rule. In that jcroup only seven of the seventeen industries expected their men to work as much as fifty hours per week." Round-the- World Trip in 31 Days Possibility Paris. ? The dreams of a round-the world trip in thirty-one days are near Ing realization. Not only Is a Rrltish company planning a seventy-four houi airplane service between London and Bombay, but the French government has given permission to a French alt mail company to organize twenty foyi hour flights between Paris nnd Bu charest, thereby cutting three days from the normal travel schedule. The planes will carry Kiitee+>n pas sengers, a ci>?>k and a porter to make I up the beds before sundown. F.ach I machine will have a wireless telephone j to k?-ep In touch with European broad- j casting stations. Extension <?f the l.ne j from Bucharest to Bombay Is being j considered nnd may be established be- i fore the end of the year. In this event, allowing two days to : catch a steamer on the pacific, two} flays to fly across the United States i and six days to cross the Atlantic, It I will be possible to make the trip: around the world In less than half Jules Verne's eighty days. Made $890 in Prison Shoe Shining Parlor " "Sam the ItootWnck." other wise Samuel William*, who left Sing; Sing (N. Y ) prison after serving five years, was $800 richer than when he. entered. He earned the money hy shining the *t>oes of attendants and pris oners prosperous enough to pay for the lu*ury. NEW QAUQE OF HORSEPOWER Method of Showing the Relation Be ' tv.ccn it and a Kilowatt Mae Been Devised. ? Mure than 1UO year* ago James Watt look the strength of a "strong London draft-horse" as a unit of measurement to Indicate the power of hi* steam engine. This uult, which was the amount of energy that would raise ?S3,()00 pound* one foot Ut ona minute, tie called one horsepower. Klectrlc motors, automobile engines und all other forma of energy-produe* lug machinery have been measured in terms Of Watt'8 horsepower ever since, says a bulletin of the New York State Committee of 1'ublic Utility. The .''.stroll# London draft-horse" is dead as Kohippus and his bones are dust, but his utlglity . thews have been so ltn* bedded in tradition that from that time to this no one has questioned the horsepower of a horse. Now the unit of measurement, orig inally taken from a horse, is to be used to measure the strength of other horses, to determine, in terms of me chanical horsepower, how strong they are. There has been designed a wagon, the wheels of which are geared to a hydraulic pump by means of which any required pull can be estab lished and a uniform load resistance maintained. To this wagon will be harnessed rarioUs types of horse* from the lordly Percheron, weighing a full ton, to the 900-pound light-harness horse, and from the results there will be established a ratio between weight and strength similar to the tables for electric motors, showing the number of horsepower delivered for every kilo watt of energy consumed. BAKERS DROP LOTUS LEAVES Shanghai Government Forces Them to Use Waxed Paper for Wrap ping Their Products. Shanghai bakers used to wrap their bread and cakes In nice green' lotus leaves. But the days of fhls romantic practice are gone forever. According to the new regulations covering bak ery products, bread and other prod ucts must be suitably wrapped In greaseproof or similar papers. The clause In the regulation covering this particular requirement quoted by As sistant Trade Commissioner A. V. Smith in a report to the Department of Commerce, reads as follows: "That bread arid bakery products shall, upon sale or when carried or handled for sale, or delivered in baa kefs, vehicles or otherwise, be suit ably wrapped In greaseproof paper or' other cleanly covering, In such man ner as to completely protect the bread from dirt, dust and flies, or from harmful contact In handling." Now Senate Lacks Octogenarian. The death of Senator William P. Dillingham of Vermont removes from the senate rolls the last octogenarian. And on March 4, when congress ad journed, there were three. Senator Page, also of Vermont, who was eighty last January, retired on that date. Knute Nelson of Minnesota, three weeks younger than Page, died In May on his way from Washington to his home. And Dillingham, midway tn his eightieth year, died early In July. Removal of these octogenarians from the senate leaves Francis EL Warren of Wyoming, now one month past b4t enty-nine. the oldest member. Next comes Le&aron Colt of Rhode Island, seventy-seven ; then Albert B. Cum mins of Iowa, a youngster of seventy three, third ; Lod?e of Massachusetts, three months younger than Oummln* fourth. Denmark's Alphabetical War. There is a battle of the big and lit tle letters now raging In Denmark. The Danish language, like the- Ger man, has hitherto adhered to the Mid dle-age practice of spelling its nouns with capital letters, but a progressive movement of growing strength de mands the substitution of the little letters In conformity with English, French and other languages. The de mand has aroused the fury of the con servative elements. . Now Minister of Edncatlon Appel I has determined to Introduce the small- : letter practice In the schools. As In the Bolshevist reform of the Russian ! orthography and the Bulgarian changes, the big letter nnd the small j letter have become symbols of political ! opinion. Somewhat Mixed. The justice of the peace In s town In Ohio, in pursuance of his duties, had to hear and Judge the cases that were brought before him and also to perform occasional marriage rp re monies. He found It difficult to rils soclate the various functions of his office. Everything had g<jne smoothly un til he hnd asked one bride: "Do you take this man to be your husband?" The bride notlded emphatically. "And von, accused," said the Jus tice, turning to the bri?legr<??ni. "what have yon to say In your defense?'' Japanese Editors Poorly Paid. Japanese newspaper m^n work for small salaries, but efforts are being made by prospermia newspapers In Osaka to elevate the standard. The Osaka Malnlchl, whlrh has a dally circulation of about Sno.oon, has n??de suhslanf IAT Tiw rea^?: In !l? exist,- ' Ing scqlo of salaries. T^ether with j a tv,nns fll?Trlbnted twice n year, sc- : 'lua! pav Is fwo to three times the i sjHerj. ^ j ; FOSSILS FROM THE ICE AGE I - Czech Scientist Dlscovsre Skeletons of Men, Women and Great Variety of Animal*. Skeletons of prehistoric men And women from the loo ugea, a mammoth, two lions, a hyena, a wolverine, Ave care hears and t least sixty fossil heavers have been found In the vast system of underground | mi laces formed by nature In the limestone rock of cen tral Moravia now being explored hy I*r. ; Karel Absolon, curator of the Brno museum of Czechoslovakia. l)r. Ales HrdUcka of the United States Nation al museum, who Is In Europe studying cave men for the United States Smith sonian Institution, will report these dis coveries In a communication to the next Issue of Science. The skeletons of many of these mam mals of the glacial period of the earth's history are In an excellent state of preservation, he roys. * The cave bears' remains are almost complete and will bo inoiinu-.d a# a group In the Pre* vlnclal museum at Brno (Brunu), while the teeth and skulls of the heavers are also considered ef highest, scientific value. The great subterranean halls, with their numerous columns, stalactite and stalagmite forms, are being energetical* ly explored and are said* to rival In beauty tW famous caverns In Virginia and Keutucky. I HIS FIRST ATTEMPT AT WORK Curious Experience of College Student Who Was Trying to Earn Money for Expenses. Mony students attending the univer sities of Indiana pay part of their college expenses by doing odd Jobs. Several years ago a young mftn applied at the Y. M. C. A. employment office of one of the universities and asked for work. He was directed to the home of one of the professors. His first duty was to m$p the kitchen floor. Mrs. H. supplied a mopstlck, some rags and a bucket. She was up stairs sewing a few minutes later whenv he called, "What shall I do with the water ?" ?Throw it out.** "But I can't." She came down to investigate. She found the kitchen floor flooded and the new helper standing on a chair holding the dry rags and the empty bucket. He explained that he had never mopped a floor before, so he lind filled the bucket with water about eight times and emp tied it on the floor. The young man is now a practicing physlclnn In Indianapolis. Poetry as It Is Lived. In his "Human Traits and Thelr'So clal Significance," Irwin Edman writes : "Men may first have come to speak poetry accidentally, for language arose, like other human habits, as a thing of use. But the charming and delightful expression of feelings and ideas came to be cherished In them selves, so that what was first an acci dent In man's life has become a de liberate practice. "When this creation of beautiful ob jects, or the beautiful expression of feelings or Ideas Is Intentional, we call It art. "In such Intentional creation and cherishing of the beautiful, man's life becomes enriched and emancipated. He learns not only to live, but to live beautifully." The first poem may have been an accident, as Mr. Edman suggests, but more than one number In the latest lot can be reckoned among catastro phles. Wife 'Worse Than Expected. A darky who had recently married was asked by the farmer for whom he worked how he and hie Mandy were getting along. "Not very well, boss. The fact la Mandy and me we've done pa'hted." "Parted !" exclaimed the farmer. "Why, yon were Juvt married. You know, Sam, you can't leave Mandy. She's your wife and you took her for better or worse." "That's Just it. boss," said Sam. "1 shore did tell that pahson that I took that pal for better or wus. But, boss, dat gal Is wus'n I took her to be." Young and Inexperienced. j When I was a bride I went into a j shop to purchase socks for my hus- 1 band. I was young and unaccustomed to buying men's wear, and was at a i l<?ss w h?-n the salesman inquired what size I uanled. I didn't have th?* slightest Idea, but suddenly I said. "I don't renumber ' what size his so<ks are. but he weara a number fifteen collar." The r'.ork and all other people In the shop burst out laughing. ? Ex change. A Helpful Hint. i "1 don't know what in the thundera tlon is the matter with my wife!" jrn:mbled 'Sap Johnson of Rumpus Kidge. ' She's everlastingly asking me for mor.py to buy a new dress with or a hur.r.it, or some such fool thing." "Mought try glrlng her a little moriey some time, and see If It would 1 make a plumb fool of her," suggested an acquaintance. ? Kansas City Star. ? Alike in That Feepect. A traveler in the West ?om? yeara ngo observed a well-executed portrait on the wall of a dark room In a cab In and asked whose picture it wa&i tuy iiuaband," said the woman ' of the houae, car?leH?ly. "Hut It la ! hung with fatal effcct," urged the I artist. "So was my husband," snapped the woman. KNOT HOIJS TO BLEACHKU | 1 1 1 > \ . (irotnwood Hoys Are Able T0 See the G?nu>. ! Peeping through kn.-i huiMji % baseball game ?? AO longer good fori* among the boys in Greenwood, Soutl* ("r.rolina. They were yever ehougli knot-holes anyway, and only a ft?w Could enjoy the stolen privilege. ? tftyvf" every boy in town who has a little self-control, and who is able to earn ii.i- l\>w pence necessary to sustain hi* pride, can see the game from the bleacher*. Memories of the days when inability to raise a quarter pre vented him and his friends from get-' ting more than a stolen squint of their favorite team in action brought about tho organization of the "Knot-hole Hoys' Club," by Joel S. Bailey, presi Ment of the Greenwood Baseball Club, and a meipber of the loeal Kotary Club. . The Greenwood Kotary ? Club took up the plan as a part ..of its boys' work program. Says an Associ ated Press dispatch, published in some of the papers: "For the sum of 10- cents and pre sentation of a card issued when he signs a pledge, any boy in Greenwood can join the cluh. The plan is to get every boy in town into the baseball park, and the results, it is said, have been so good that the Rotary Club is planning to enlarge the bleacher sec tion assigned to the boys. "The pledge the boys sign follows: Sunday, except in case of sickness, will not use curse words. I will not gamble. I will not lie. I will be honest. I will live a clean life. 1 have read, or had read to me, the above ob ligation and promise that I will al ways try to obey* it.' " ? Literary Di gest. ; C. Eugene Johnson, one of tho trans-continental mail flyer^ says that the time from New York to San Francisco for air mail can be reduced to twenty hours or less. He want? a month to prove that it can be done. G. A. CREED General Contractor Estimates Furnished 311 DeKalb St Phone 192J CAMDEN, S. C. T. B. BRUCE Veterinarian Lyttleton St., Phone 114. CAMDENt S. C. DR. G. C. TRANTHAM DENTIST First Floor, Crocker Building PHONE 450 Dr. C. F. Sowell DENTIST (Office Over Brace's Store) CAMDEN, S. C. COLUMBIA LUMBER & MANUFACTURING CO. MILL WO?K SASH, DOORS, BLINDS AND LUMBER PLAIN & HUGER STS. Ph?n? 71 COLUMBIA, S. C. DR. R. E. STEVENSON DENTIST Crocker Building Camden, 8. C. A_R. COLLINS Undertaker and Embalw?'' AMIWUKCi 8BKVICK ? Camden, S. C. T?UplioH? ? I5?> 41; H!sM ??