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I lit CAMDEN CHRONICLE II I). NlliliS Kditor and I'ublleher Published ovary Friday. 4t No. 1100 Ht oad street timl entered ?t the Cam den, South Carolina poatolflco |* second clash mail matter, Price per unnum $2.00. Camden, S. C., Friday, Dec. 14, 1923. THIS IS YOUR FIGHT, TOO! You are happy in your health. Do you know that fur eighteen'' years Tuberculosis Associations have been fighting to keep you healthy? The < umpaign against tuberculosis, sup ported largely by the sale of Christ mas seals, saved more than a hundred thousands lives this year. Who knows but that this jfrmpaign has saved you and your family from the scourge of consumption? Buy Christmas tea'lf* do Yoi k CHRISTMAS shopping NOW! Wh*re i?T the man, woman or child who has not been taught the slogan, .Shop, Early? % Where is the person who has not been \aught for years and years, mail Christmas packages early! If you think of the clerks in tho stores busy from morning till night fulfilling your wants, treating you with courtesy and doing all in their power to accommodate you, then you surely will shop early. If you will only picture the mail carrier heavily burdened In his work of distributing presents and good cheer, walking through sunshine and rain, slush and snow and sacrificing a great deal, then you surely Will mail Christmas packages early! This is an appeal to everyone. It means dispatch In handling you? * -?? ? ?? ...4^ L ?, 4 *9 ? >mm ??r 1 1 1 mriHiniuM pnMivttU "?*** shop early and mail your packages early, you will He doing justice to yourself and to others. ' Send your Christmas mail early! ~tr' v- I Good Stories. Col. Billy Hanks is writing some v very fine human stories for the Green ville News, and >ve hope to print some of them from time to time. In fact, we much prefer to read these histori cal and human stories to the reading of much that we -And in the newspa pers of these days. Ho has one of Judge DeVore that the newspapers are copying and com menting upon and the Greenwood Index- Journal says the publication of it may have the effect of causing .fudge DeVore to omit a common ex pression that he has gotten in the habit of using when he charges a jury. The expression is, "Did he do it, did he do it. gentlemen?" He Would refer to the requests to charge certain points of law and hv? would say that he would charge on the 'law, but he would constantly re vert to his saying, "Did he do it?" Some how it seems to us, thnt after all, that should be the main point in the. case. - especially in criminal cases. "Did he do it?" * Is he guilty of the violation of the law charged,, and that is the real question of fact for the jury to determine, ami it is right and proper for the trial judge to impress that fwrt upon the jury, and "the equity and justice of the case after all should rest upon that question, is he guilty? "Did he do it?" It. should not be so much a question of the technicalities of the law as a question of fact in the trial of per sons charged with the commission of crime. "Dili he do it?" is a very per tinent question, though the expression may not be so very ornate, it i* clas sical ifild it expresses the right idea. ! Too often tin-; very important thing , is either overlooked or beclouded by: too much law mm. I too many requests! to charire the law. and we imagine : that Judge DeYoi'e lias discovered this ' and he want* the jury to inquire into' the fa-*< , and the ' a! guilt of the [ party rather t hat*. ?nto too many tech- ! nicalities. an! a.*cer!a r. if the party did what he i-^ accused of doing, or is i he inno, ? n t . "Mid he do it ,1" i- ail [ lighl. Judu\ an 1 you should not be. -wi >\.d from ;rrnresslng that ques i t ion upon She jury by the publication of this in.<<; excellent human >tory j 'hat Col. Hanks has wr.!t< n. but on tlie contrary you should continue to! ask t h .s very pertinent and important question, "Did he do it"" Newberry 1 f ei a Id a nd' New s. \ renin moda t i n s? . A sudden vacancy occurred m a mu nicipal office thmuirh the death of ? certain Tom lories. I >:sr?*car(iinc the fact that .lone. ?* w.o no! y?t buried, an over-ea?"er offi ?? appnaihed the Mayor. "Mr. Mayor," he said breathlessly, "have you any objection to nn Ihmdk put in poor Tom Jones' place0" ''Why, no," said the Maj*or in Hi-? 1 pu.st, "I have no objection if t h?- u n dertaker hasn't!" The action of the South Dakota Re publican primary puts Calvin Coolidjfe definitely in the field as a candidate for the Republican presidential nomi nation. r.'." "" "!>1 - ? ^'-1*. ? -?*?'? -TTTifc IPMP>*iigi ?!??? Is The Kace Degenerating?^ J udge Homage of Saludn, in addi tion to his attainments in law and literature,^ is practical and n close student of work-a-day people and their affair. s. He presided over the court in McCormick county, recently, In his charge to the urand Jury ho said jimong other things as reported by the loeftl "Messenger": ,4I am afraid our people are fast losing tho old love of work that made our people ..'.cat." He thinks that automobile* and projniscous swimming pools are making tho devil happy. It is not fashionable 'or popular to say so but the judge told it when he Haid the old love of work is on the \y?ne. It is. The (Jreenville Piedmont says that 1 out of every 12 of the people are drinking public pap. That is a deplor able record. It bodes evil to this country. Too many are dodging work. They are after a gOod time. The farm has no attraction any more. Our institutions are running over with students, and over half of them, according to an old California profes sor, are wasting the money of their parents and the people. -r-Calhoun Times. It is noticeable in reading over the accounts of the almost every day ban dit raids in New York city, frequently accompanied by murder and whole sale liquor operations that irtost of the guilty parties are foreigners. Most of the names have a foreign sound, bearing absolutely no resem blance whatsoever |to the good old Anglo Saxon stock or thd other races that have peopled and hewed out and built up these United States. These foreigners bave very little conception of law. The gratification of their appetites and senses is the thing up permost ,ii) their hearts and minds, and they ate ready, many of them, to attempt the most desperate anu dia bolical crimes for money. There is no problem before America for consider ation today that involves such a men ace to our institutions as the presence of such a large per cOnt of this class of people, who are openly arrayed against government, are law-breakers by profession, and if the opportunity offered and they thought they had the strength would make a powerful and determined effort to do away witblaw and government and have anarchy.? Chester Reporter. The Interstate Commerce commis sion has ordered the interstate express companies to reduce the carrying charges on articles of food about ten per cent to become effective on Or be fore February 21, next. The Americaa Express company was appealing for higher rates. Miss Pate Dead. Bishopville, Dec. ? 12. ? Miss LYllie Pate, after much suffering for a long time, parsed away Sunday afternoon at her home in the Stokes Bridge sec tion of the county. Miss Pate had a large number of friends, having been born and reared in, this section, who will learn of her death with great s(?nitW; Sh*? was about- 4# years of age. Miss Pate was an active and influ ential member of Savannah Advent Christian 'Church, joining when a ? II girl. She was a consistent f'hi:.?Cuii and her good influences in I ? (ommunity will live long after e has u' me. "P*e funeral services were held at" ' Savannah church Monday afternoon, v i>! vun H'd by the Rev. H. V. Skipper <>1' .Jacksonville, Fla., and the Rev. II. \ lohitxon, both former pastors of Miss pjite. Interment followed in Sa viiniali cemetery. Surviving are four sisters as fol low.;. Mix, H. I,. Whit lock of Lake City. .Mrs. W. M. Skinner and Misses M ,i ii. !<? .iihI r'nlflle Ptttc* of Risliup ? villi-. Three brothers also survive as follows: T. ('. Pate of Columbia and \\ . H. i'ate and II. II. Patt* of Bishop \- i i ' ?* HAMBONE'S MEDITATIONS WEN Dfc E?OSS PAY ME WAGES* AM AiN' NE^UH CoT NOTHlN' COM in' To Mfc, guT E.F ME JES' GIMME A DOLLAH NOW E.N DEN A MS ALLUi GOT su MFN in s ight ! C?pyn#M. i?at Of WnwHWr Isrsdlt*^ Corliss Hoover Griffi", convicted at Moabach,^ Baden, last Friday for the part ho played in the effort to kidnap Grover Cleveland iiergdqll, at Eber bach last August, was aentenced by the i 'i esiding judge to eighteen months imprisonment and a fine of 2,000,000,000,000 marks (60 cents). Of the eighteen months, three months are regarded as having been served. Karl Sperber of Paris, got the same sentence. Victor hfelson, the chauffeur, got three months, which are consider ed Mervt'd, and was released. Faust Gagarin, the Russian prince got eight months with three 'months off. The prosecution had asked for double these sentences. The judge found that Bergdoll had been rightfully con demned by the American courts and th*t (li iffis was actuated by patriotic motives in trying to get him baek. The prosecuting attorney had argued that Griffts had shown contempt for American lawH ftnd said that he had to thank the Eberbach police for not having been lynched. It had been ru mored that Bergdoll's chauffeur had threatened to harm the prisoners', but the presiding* judge warned hi(n that he had bettef let tbom alone. It is expected that Qriffls, Sperber and Gagarin wijl soon be pardoned. ? _ - v ? V . GENERAL NEWS NOTES. The suit of Mrs. Onezima de Bou chel of New Orleans, against Asa G. Candler of Atlanta, for $500,000 dam ages for alleged broach of prqmj[8c has been set for a hearing on January 30 in the Federal court in Atlanta. J. E. Jennings, alias William Er nest Sage, father of eight children, and respected citizen of Bakersfield, Caly is. on his way to Pittsburgh, Pa., in charge of an officer to answer to the charge of murder committed in the latter city 10 years ago; E. Ray Tompkins, real estate deal er of Milwaukee, Wis., is iielu l>> t?? police oh the charge of killing his wife. He admits the crime, having cut her head off with a butcher knife. ? , Georgc E. Sutcliffe, who practiced medicine at Hartford, Conn., under a diploma alleged to have been faked, has been indicted on a charge of mary^ slaughter. One of his patients dieti while being operated on for a crushed finger. ? Narcotic agents say that such large quantities of narcotics are being smuggled across the Mexican1 border by means of carrier pigeons, that afc least one of the drugs has materially slumped in price. The first payment of $100,000 to ward the purchase price of Monticelld/ the Virginia home of Thomas Jeffer-' son, has been made with contributions from New York state through the* Thomas Jefferson Memorial Founda tion. The rehiainder of the purchase, price for the property is $400,000.- t Federal prohibition officers de stroyed a $15,000 ale brewery in a field near Hawthorne, N. J. Monday 4'*.u 41 night. {f Mrs. Jane Martin of Fairmont, W. Va^. walked into the office of the Hnrrisburg, Pa., street car line Tues day and laying a nickel down before the cashier, says she owed it for ten years for a fare she didn't pay, and that the memory of her failure had bothered her all that time. Burton S. Tucker, 10, of South Es sex, Mass., on October 2, married Mrs* Susan O. Simpson, 50, of New York, in New Jersey, and now New Jersey authorities are investigating the cas6 wfth a view to annulling the marriage The woman in tho case i& velV wealthy. ? ii ELECTRIC SHOCKS AND DEATH On* Ampere PsMlng Through Vital Organs |8 Sufficient to De stroy Life. Donth by ulectrlelty Is caused from paralysis of the muscles, including the Involuntary muscles of tlie heart, lungs, etc.. as well as the destruction t^ .the men till and nervous system of the body, according to Oenrge M. Ole, power representative of a large elec* trie power company, writing In a re cent Issue of Klectrlcal World. It has been found, continues this authority, through exhaustive research work, that a current <>f on.' ampere passing through the bruin and other vital or gans of the body will in most cases produce death If allowed t" net for : only a short period of time, and It Is therefore evident that It Is the a 111 per* age, together with the energy dissi pated In the body, that actually de stroys life. On the other hand, the element of voltage enters. Inasmuch a's the resist InK power of the human J>ody Is very high, and it. requires a voltage comparatively lar^e or small, depending entirely upon the resistance and contacts, to force this amount of current through a circuit In which the body and Its contacts constitute the resistance. The resistance of the human body Is a variable factor gn<J depends largely upon the applied voltV age, Inasmuch as the resistance mea sured from hand to hand with pre cision Instruments on potentials not In excess of ten volts will show ap proximately 40,000 ohms, while If thUl potential Is Increased to 110 volt# tba resistance breaks to some extent and become* nearly 10.0(^0 ohm*. - J ? c " ' A - - ?? v*. I,KTTKH8 TO SANTA CI,Al?H. 1 >T V ' ** CamdoDi S. G, Dec. 12, 1923. Dear Santa Claim; I am 11 year# old and I wajit you to bring mo a rp?K and a pair of vases and some 1 toys, (ruita, nut#, candy, and #om# i^re* works. Dear Sandy, I wiah you i merry Christmas and happy now year. From, Lydia Marshall, Camden, 8. C., Dec. 12, 1923. Dear Sandy Claus ? 1 am 6 years old 1 want you to bring me a sleepy doll and some other toys, fruits, nuts, can dies, and a little doll swing. Dear Sanoy I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year. From v Ruby Marshall. / Dear Santa: - \ Please briqjg mfe a yellow taxi andf a disappearing can non. Please , bring Jack a wind-up train. Dear Santa, please bring Jo seph two little rabbits. Santa, we will be glad of anything you bring us. Good night with a kiss. Bill Rhame, Camden, S. C. . if Cannon, S. C., Dec. 12, 1923. Dear Santa Clrtus: I am a boy in the .second grade. I want you to bring me foot ball, train, bicycle, a game, some fruit, nuts, candy and some flreworks. I wish you a merry Christmas end a hippy new year. Your friend, Raymond Hinson. Camden, S. C., Dec. 8th, 1928. Dear Santa Claus: As it is near Christmas I thought I had better write and tell you what I want you to bring me. Dear Santa Claus, I am a little girl eleven years old. As usual the first thing I want is a big doll, second, a doll bed, third a pair of overshoes, sortie flreworks, fruits and nuts. I suppose that is all for you have so isiany boy ^irls to visit' that I am not going to be greedy.. Wishing you the merriest Christ mas you ever had, I am ^ Bessie Hinson. A New York syndicate has recently purchased 50,000 acres of cultivated lands ip the , province of Saskatche wan, Canada, vacated by Mennonites who emigrated to Mexico some time ago. The price paid was a million and a half dollars. Send a contribution to the treas urer of the "Good Fellows" and help majte some poor family happy t at ' Christmas time. v ? ? - ? ? ?? EFFECTIVE DECEMBER tykl 13*3, %r x Bus Line Schedule BETWEEN BISHOP VILLE and HART$VILLE COLUMBIA, CAMDEN, CHARLOTTE . NORTHBOUND Daily except Sunday SOUTHBOUND Road down. Read up a. m. p. iti. > ?? p. wu 7:30 2:00 Lv. COLUMBIA Ar. ; . . 10:^5 0;3o Starts at Grysham Hotel and calls at Marmac, Jerome, DeSoto, Imperial, Jefferson. 8:30 * 3:00 5:3^ 8:45 8:15 LUGOF* 9:30 5:15 9:00 8:30 .. Ar. CAMDEN Lv 9:15 5:00 9:15 Lv. CAMUKN, Ar. 5:00 10 00 KERSHAW; 4:15 10:16 HBATHSPKINGS 4:0Q 10:40 , LANCASTKll 4 8:34 U Jo ! WAXHAW 2;5s *12*15 Ar. CHARLOTTE Lv. 2.00 Starts at Mecklenburg and calls at v. . all other Jeadiftg hotels. 9:15 5:00 Lv; CAMDFJjN Ar 9:00 4:30 10-00 5:45 BISHOP VILLE \. 8:15 3:45 10:45 6:30 , Ar. HARTSVILLE Lv. . . . 7i30 3:00 All Busses Make Direct Connections in Camden ? COURTEOUS SERVICE PLUS PROTECTION We guarantee a seat and taake every reasonable effort to keep our schedule. Fare* ^vern^e 8 Per Operated by ? HAYES TRANSFER COMPANY Hart8ville ; S* C? Glaring Lights Cause Two Deaths. Charleston, Dec. 12.^-Two 'white men wore killed and a third probably injured tonight when they were struck by a motor car on a concrete section u f the high >73 y near the 14 mile post. >> I)r. CNR. Goodwin of Mount Holly, Borkeley county, who was driving the car, said that white he was blinded by the bright lights of two cars com ing into Charleston, he struck the th^eo men. The dead men have been identified as Hampton Hlltdn and "Guinea" Smith, and the injured man as George Hilton, all of Charleston. Dr. Goodwin is in the coroner's cus tody, and an inquest will . probably be held Saturday. Dr. Goodwin said that he was returning to Mount Holly and that the three men were also walking in that direction. ^Jg$P A Memory! First Clubman, looking over Uut pAp?n: . V3y ^ove, I aee that the en gage men.t of Miss .Van Kingle and . old Tightwocd i? announced, she seems to have accepted jiim at. last." Second: Cabman: "Yes,, and they say \ ahft. ,ha8 W? n?n? , her . whole life . htetoiiy^sp tfce cradle upt" First Clubman: "My! my! What wondf i;o u ?'a kc ! " Second Clubman : "What wonderful memory, you mean, don't you?" \^Vjr^f/iat' is in "the Senate. ? >' l ' The ftpoHen wof d of Mr. Cole BJ^ase that be will- be a candidate for the United States senate, next year, against Mr. Dial, has set the South Carolina papers to talking. It is the observation :Qf the Spartanburg Her- .1. nidi-. . "Thut'^t how Senator Dial, was elected the- -first time/'? Charlotte Observer. > Christmas ij?f$?i Whitrrtan'8 Candies None better. Your wife's, daughter's, mother's, sister's or best girl's Christmas will not be complete without a box of delicious candy. Electric Goods Reading Lamps, Toastei Percolators, Haircurlers, Heating Pads, Household Irons, etc. We guarantee as to quality and prices right. Waterman's Fountain Pens Many Styles and Prices Toys, Dolls. Fireworks, Christmas Boxes, Seals, Tags, Greeting Cards, Calendars, Post Cards Stationery in Fancy Boxes ? ? ' Fine Cigars q.nd Cigarettes In holiday packages. ALSO Pipes and Cigarette Holders Perfumes and Toilet Goods In sirfgle packages and in sets. Leather Hand Bags New shape and colors. Come in and see our line before buying, and remember that your order for medicines or sick room supplies will receive 'the C> - - - - ~r/> ? ? .... same careful attention during the Holiday rush that we give to it'at other times. \ - ? % W. ROBIN ZEMP'S DRUG STORE PHONE 30