Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Several ArreHt* Made. A special officer from the Gover nor's office was sent here last Friday Mini with the aid of police and county officer* succeeded in making whiskey seizures and getting evidence enough to cause the arrest of four white men and one negro, who were put under bond for their appearance at the next session of the circuit court. Two of the white men captured were from Columbia, while the other three were old offenders at the game, one of the white men now being under a sus jtended sentence for like offense. It is said the officers succeeded in lo cating cancelled checks amounting to around $10,000 at one place, said to have been made payable ' to a well known Columbia dealer in contra band liquors, . The cases will no doubt prove inter esting when the* uext term of court convenes. i * ? ? : ? Front Baseball Benefit Came. The Camden Hospital is in receipt Of $5,1.85, the proceeds of the base ball game on Saturday at the Fair grounds, between Darlington and Hermitage Mills. The Hospital feels very grateful and wishes to thank the management of the Mill and in dividual players on the Hermitage Mill team for their thoughtfulncss. To Quit Jay Walking. City Council i* having pathways painted at the intersection of? Broad and DeKalb and also at the intersec tion of Broad and Kutledge streets, showing the paths to follow in cross ing at these points. Now that Cam den has grown to be in the city class and with the numerous' automobiles passing those corners where traffic is the heaviest, this course has been decided upon merely as a matter of safety to the individual crossing the streets. Ifi the future it will be wrong to cut diagonally across at the?e two points and it might be well to "watch your step," K ^ Moulton-Brown. A marriage of interest and one which came as a surprise to people of Camden was that of Miss Louise Margaret Mo.u I ton to Mr. William Levi Brown, the ceremony being per formed at Bishopville on Tuesday 'by the Rev. Theodore W. Law, pastor of Beulah church. Miss Moulton came to Camden sev eral months ago from Massachusetts where she has beep employed as .t Red Cross worker in this county. Mr. Brown is a well-known farmer of the Beulah community and the couple has many friends who will be interested in this announcement. Hospital Elevator Installed. The Camden Hospital elevator has beerr completed and is now in use. It is said to be a fine machine and will proVe of great convenience to the management. The fund for the pay 'nuent of the machine was raised by public subscriptions and the manage ment feels deeply grateful to the pub lic for making this needed improve ment possible. To Breach Saturday. Rev. W. C. Carter, the colored evan gelist, requests us to announce that ? he will preach on the streets Saturday afternoon, near the corner of Broad and Hut ledge streets. GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of Interest Gathered From Many Sources. Two gunmen entered a hall in Chi cago Monday night where 8,000 wo men members of the Ladies' Garment Workers union were listening to an address by Wiliam Z. Foster, radical labor leader, fired three shots at Fos ter, and made their escape. Foster was uninjured and continued his ad dress. A new gold field has been discovered on the Tolkat river in Alaska, and the discovery has been the signal for a .stampede of miners from all parts of Alaska. The placer gold is said to run as high as $1 to the pan. The National Association of Attor neys General is in session at Minneap olis, Minn., and on Tuesday adopted a resolution for a "thorough and nation-wide investigation" of gasoline prices. A. Mitchell Palmer, attorney gener al in the cabinet of President Wilson, ?was married in Groton, Connecticut, Wednesday, his bride being Mrs. Mar garet Fallon Burrall, widow of John B. Burrall, a New York manufacturer. New carpets and rugs in Smyrna are given an appearance of ago by the bleaching process which follows wash ing and scrubbing. They are hung in the sunlight on the roofs of the fac tories and homes of the workers. Within 100 miles of the Arctic Circle, Cordelia M. Karshner has suc ceeded in raising as many as 350 to the aero. She haa homesteaded a piece of property in Alaska in a valley containing hot springs and it is due to the warmth .given o 11 by the springs that she is able to raise to matority melons and tomaloes. KEEN m JUSTICE Sentiment One of the Strongest Among Arabs. Will Not R??cnt Punishment, but D?al Death to Man Who Mlstroat*. Mr. Hurry lloundtree, when travel ing through the French colony of Al giers, hud u curious experience In Torggourt, an Arub village In th$ midst of a desert. Here, ho ways, were Arub black smiths hammering wonderful knives from Hied steel. I photographed one of these men at work. I was alone, and ho demanded payment. When I refused, ho was not to be put off by a poor Joke In bad French, but leaped to his feet and snatched ray camera. This I rescued, but he then threatened to smash It with his hammer. Being surrounded by some thousands of these* gentlemen, all of them standing over six feet In height and all carry ing beautifully sharp knives, I came to the conclusion that It was perhaps better to pay the few franc* de- ' manded. I then made my way back to the hotel und Informed the manager, a very live young Frenchman, of what had occurred. He at once reached for his hat and said we would go back und settle the matter. I suggested that it was perhaps bothorlng him, and that as I was going away In a couplo of days he might settle the matter at his leisure. Also that I was quite sure my ribs were not proof against Arab knives. He was not to be put off in seeing tluit justice was carried out Bo, unwillingly, 1 made my way to the spot and pointed out the man. The Frenchman spoke to him In Arabic, and Immediately my money was re turned. He then suggested that the dark gentloman should follow him to the police court. Thereupon the ?Arpb pleaded that the incident was closed, and I must say I was filled with ad miration for the Frenchman when I saw him grip the Arab and lift him rirr.?^ n ??**?<? sw* nn#i VSVCHA UV.1 V^O AitD V m a* It ktl V ?-Ml UUVV l??tU march him off through the crowd to the police court, or what stands for a police court in this place. He camo back to the hotel to tell me that the man had got 28 days' im prisonment for demanding money with menaces, and explained to me how im portant It was that no Incident of tbls kind should be allowed to go disre garded. He thereupon added to my discomfort by suggesting that X should at once tako my camera and work nij way hack to ' the subject where I had been photographing and go on with the work. In vain I racked my brnlns for some excuse, but as this French man had put It to a Britisher there was nothing for it but to do as he suggested. ?. My French friend told me that he had commanded Arabs during tho war, and ho said the Arab was a man pos sessed of a very keen sense of Justice. If an Arab had done wrong you could punch him out of shape and he would not attempt to do you any harin; but, he said, never punch an Arab unless you are certain he has done wrong, or the llrst dark night Is the night that you start for your long home. The Last "Opry." It has always been the custom In small towns to refer to all classes at theatrical performances as Moprys,M perhaps because the playhouse Is usu ally called the opera house. Not long ago a theatrical man was obliged to inspect the opera house of a Massa chusetts town and found the Janitor busy holding down a rocking chair, putting quietly at an old clay pipe. "Ah, Mr. Stage Manager, Just the one I want to see," cheerfully spoke the visitor. 'Oun you tell me the name of the last show you had here?*' The Janitor paused thoughtfully for a minute. "I Jest can't. It's clean> gone from my memory." Then, yefling to some one In the rear, he asked i "Iley, Ezry, what was the last opry we had here?" "The last opry we had here," came the decisive answer, "was Albert An derson's trained monkeys." ? Houston Post. Russia's Potash Reserve. According to advice received by th? j foreign department of Moody's Inve? j tors' Service. Professor Brlanlshni koff, an internationally prominent! agricultural chemist, has made an ei-j haustlve study concerning the potash j ( deposits In Soviet llus^i * Potash re i serves In European Russia alone ar? : estimated at 5,508,000,000 tons. (Par enthetically. It may he stated that th? contents of the Alsatian potash basin now belonging: to Prance, aro esti mated at 2,000.000,000 tons.) Of th< total, 141,000,000 tons contain over 24 per cent of recoverable phosphorus; about 1,707,000,000 from IS trt 24 pel cent, while the contents of the baJ ? ance range between 24 and 35 pel cent. Not So Good. I I am a bashful young girl, and sel : dom have anything to *ay when oul with a beau. The other night, after a long silence, my beau said to me, "A penny Fof, your thought*." "Oh, they're n>t worth a penny," I answered. After a pause, he Mid, "Were yoa thinking of me?" And 1 atftwtrstf. "Ye*H ? Chlcajo Tribune, 1',,;,' *- ?"? HE W AS GAME TO THE LAST Dylnt Book Agent Pile* His Profs*. sioit With torrowing Friends and liven Tick lei. Undertaker. The book agent wua dying. (They are tough, hut thoy Co die.) "It is Hfird, very hard," lio muttered, "to ii iw deuth come just us I hud beep given the exclusive right to cunvass ila.vseed county for ItlpMnorter's Uni versal history- u work that whs bound to sell like hot cak&i." Then glancing ut his aobhiug friends who stood round his bedside, he said: "Soon all that will be left of men will be a sainted memory. 1 shall have departed, us Shakespeare ? whose works, in 19 volumes, half Russia, come at $2 a volume, or $24 the set? remarks, 'to that bourne from which no traveler returns.' Hut do not weep. I have only one last request to make. Promise me that you will grant it," "We will," replied all present, In choking accents. "I have your word ? yours, Uncle John^ and yours, Aunt Maria, and Bill's, and Cousin Jemiina/a, and 'i>oe tor SUtugh tor's?" > "Tou have," was the unanimous re sponse. "Then," said the dying man, with a look of contentment, "I shall have you all put down for a set of Strawpaper'a magnificent 'History of Fakes and Su perstitions,' in 12 volumes, full mo rocco, at $36 the set. The entire work will be delivered to you with a week." One by one the sorrowing friends filed out, too full for utterance. "That little stroke of business will get mo an A1 monument," said the book agent to his wife. "And now, suppose you send round* for the un dertaker, and I'll see If I can't land him for a set of the Blarney library at $00, and get htm to take It out in trade." SHOWS EARMARKS OF AGE Collector of Genuine Antique FurnU ture Knows Little Point* That Cannot Be Faked. How long ago. was the circular saw invented? If you aspire to become a collector of genuine anique furniture you should- know the answer to the question. The circular saw was in vented as far back as the year 1777. Therefore, no piece of Seventeenth century furniture should bear the tell tale curved lines that a bent tooth in a circular saw makes. The maker of false antique furniture may copy the form of the original piece with com parative ease, but he has difficulty in giving it the appearnnce Of genuine age. Boring wormholes fe now re garded as dangerous ; other methods of uglng are preferred. For example, a gentleman who was visiting the shop of a prosperous country dealer in a? tlque furniture noticed several rat* I bits! inside an interesting carved cof- J fer. "You know more about such j things than I do," he remarked to his ' host, but unless I am strangely mis taken that is an original Sixteenth century coffer. How In the world can you put It to such a use?" "It will ! be a Fifteenth century coffer when ; the rabbits have finished with It," was j the cool reply. Snapshots of an Ecllps^. (> Immense telescopic cameras forty and sixty feet long, gigantic reflectors and a number of smaller instruments will be moved Into Mexico for the pur pose of photographing the gun during its total eclipse next September, ac cording to plans announced here by Dr. A. E. Douglas of the University of Arlsona, says a Tucson correspond* ent of the New York, World. Doctor Douglas will head an expedi tion, while a second will be conducted * by Prof. W. A. Cogshall of the Uni versity of Indiana. The Douglas expedition will take with it a forty-foot-focus camera which wlU reproduce the sun with a five-inch diameter. An even larger camera, with a sixty-foot focus, will be taken by the Cogshall expedition. These cameras will be held In posi tion by means of specially constructed towers. San Felipe, 134 miles south of th? international boundary, has been se lected as the site of the Oogshall ex pedition's observation. Doctor Doug las has not definitely selected his Joe* tion. Strange Mirage Seen In Italy. Images of hills, groves, buildings ' ships and other objects In the vicinity, some erect and some Inverted, are un ; der certain atmospheric conditions seen in the Straits of Messina, be tween Calabria and Sicily. This strange species of mirage Is sometime! seen in the water and sometimes in the air, and forms a kind of moving ] spectacle. The Italian name of Fata Morgana Is given the mirage, because ; it is supposed to be the work of th? ' fairy Montana, the pupil of Merlin and tho sister of King Arthur. j Required Too Much Effort. Mrs. Envie ? And have you been In South America? Mrs. Newrich ? Many times. In fact I know it from end to end. Mrs. Envie ? Then of course you ' went up the Amazon? Mrs. Newrich ? No, as a matter, of . fact, I didn't. My husband went to ' the top, but I never cared much for climbing. ~ TT?e DimcQTty. ~ ?They say music make* the cow five more milk." "Still I imagine It la coins to te difficult to persuade some of ow , temperamental artists to aceomptaf ' ? cow." ? ? ? -OF ? - ? w-I? 'X ? i , ? _ ? . ? ? ? COTTON BEING RECEIVED. And New Member* Added to Coopera tive Association. Columbia, Sept. 5. - New cotton U beginning to come in steadily to the South Carolina Cotton Growers' Co operative Association. Last week fif teen bales were received and this wiik the number is gradually in creasing. Uy next week the deliveries will be on in earnest. Reports received by the association from members indicate a much heav ier delivery this season than last. The association's membership has been increased nearly 50 per cent and the incease includes some of ttye largest growers in the state. Several hundred new members were addetj as the result of the member ship drive last week. Officials of the asociation expressed themselves as well pleased with the results,- . In a statement issued last week l)r. W. W. Long, director of the extension forces oi Clemson College, declared that "The officers of the South Car olina Cotton Growers Cooperative As sociation are among the leading bus iness men of the State and the success they have made in handling the busi ness of the association during its first year merits the undivided support of our people. ? i 1 The association is advancing 12 cents a pound as the initial advance this year. Of the four men "holding down" Wrangell Island in the Arctic for tho Canadian government, three are American citizens. The island is about eighty miles long and thirty five mjles wide, rugged and rocky with a maximum elevation Of about 2,000 feet. It is probably the greatest polar bear country in the world and there are no locations better for fox raising. Both the United States and Russia have somewhat shadowy cl&ims on it. In time it no doubt will possess great value as an airplane station in the line of what, nrrvmises to hp the short est and safest aeronautic route be tween Asia and America. v Colonel Owsley, American Legion commander, has beenmade a comman der of the French Legation of Honor. Chamber of Commerce Notes. The board of directors of the Cam den and Kershaw County Chamber of Commerce have approved of South Carolina Day ? on September twenty sixth, at the M&de-in-Carolina Expo sition at Charlotte, N. C., and author ized Secretary E. I. Reardon to .take the necessary steps to arrange for Camden and Kershaw County partici pation therein. The directors also endorsed the State- wide publicity conference to be held in Columbia at ten o'clock the morniifg ' of September 13th, at the Jefferson Hotel and a delegation of about sixteen Camden and Kershaw county citizens will attend this con ference. The annual meeting of the South Carolina Comercial Secretaries Asso ciation in Columbia opening up with a supper at the Jefferson BU>tel the evening of September the eleventh and lasting through September 12th was also endorsed and Secretary Reardon authorized to attend this meeting and remain over for the pub lieity conference on September 13th. October the seventeenth at 8 o'clock was set as the date of the annual meeting and banquet of the Camden and Kershaw County Chamber of Commerce. Chairman L. C-. Shaw of the entertainment and hospitality committee were requested to get their committees to take complete charge of the annual meeting and banquet to raise seven thousand dollars in spot cash paid-in-advace subscriptions for the ensuing fiscal year. ' Jackson School To Open. To the Patrons and Pupils of the Jackson Graded and Junior ? High School: Please take notice that this school will open for registration' and work on Monday morning, Septwril 10th, 1923, at 9 o'clock, sharpMl parents are urgently requested to A two things: First, Have every 4 vaccinated- The State Law'requi this to be done in every case. Seta Send your children to the school the opening day, for propet cUil cation. _'_J Every 'pupil is specially. reqaal to -bring his or her old books andji motion card. All conditions muit removed during the first three da of school by examinations. Pupils from other schools will m to take entrance examination* ? whatever class they desire to wka Yourg for service, j P. B. Mdodana, Princi#? CAMDEN ICE COMPANY Thanks the people of Camden, for their splendid cooperation, ml wo have two favors to ask of oiir patrons; one of which is, if JjS have a car, please drive down to to our plant on Sundays, and ) youf requirements, as it is not our desire to deliver any Ice except i in cases of emergencies, and this will be gladly done night or <Uy. The other is, please arrange to have the proper change with which : to pay the driver eueh day, as they arc checked up each nighiliDJ ur run no charge account with anyone. Some of our drivers losing their jobs because of their inability to check in properly, i Now we have asked you to do these two things, and if there jn anything that we are failing to do that we should do, won't you l?t ufc know, for it is our * desire to give you a perfect service and a ?qua iv deal in every respect. . ' * ? ---i CAMDEN ICC COMPANY TELEPHONE 18 .* J&swzz&s.'.. . . .. * ??' ?. . ? - - 7TV:V ?' Reduced Rates Cotton We have recently installed a sprinkler system in all our warehouses and can now offer reduced rates, begin ning September 1st, as fol lows: 100 Bales and over, 30 cents per month. Less Quantity, 40 cents per month. *: r- ; rr r . .. . " . j-~*. - - Mutual Warehouse Co. ? ... ? ? ? : ? - -3i JOHN S. LINDSAY, President. USE - > Carolina Bond " i) 4 ? " -- on that next order of Printed Stationery ENVELOPES TO MATCH We also carry in stock: Hammermill Bond Tokio Bond Triumph Bond Signet Bond Basic Bond Worth more Bond Printcraft Bond Southland Bond Richmond Bond Uncle Sam Bond WITH ENVELOPES TO MAtCH THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE