The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, February 29, 1924, Image 3
Old Folks'
Ailments
"I began taking Black*
Draught over fifty year* age
and my experience with It
stretches ever a good long
time/' says Mr. Joe A. Blake
more. a CWI1 War veteran
?ad former Virginian, who is
new a prominent citisen of
Floyd. Texas. "It is the best
laxative I know of for old
people. . . A geoa many years
ago, .in Vir^niVTuaed to
get bilious and I found that
Thedford's
BLACK-DRAUGHT
was the best and quickest re
lief I could fet. Since I came
to Texae 1 Here these bilious
attacks every now and then ?
a man will got bilious any
where, you know ? and I find
that a little Black-Draught
soon straightens me out.
After a few doses, in little or
no time I'm all right again."
Thedford's Black-Draught
is a purely vegetable liver
medicine, used in America for
over eighty years. It acts on
the stomach, liver and bowels
in a gentle, natural way, as
sisting digestion and reliev
ing constipation. Sold every-.
LENINGRAD.
A Dying City Name<h-~for a Dead
Man.
In changing the name of Petrograd
to I Leningrad the Soviet government
has named a dying cily ?rter a ueau j
man. Moscow, like Vienna, Riga, i
and Trieste, after passing under the,
shadow of poverty thrown by war]
devastation, is once mdre on the
path to prosperity, but the city of the
tsars, despite its glorious past, ap
pears to be drifting toward oblivion.
"Qld St. Petersburg by any name
will always bo - known as a city,
which, like Tell-el-Amarna, the cita
del of Tutankhamen's father-in-law,
was dedicated to a great ideal," a bul
letin from the National Geographic
society says. "St. Petersburg was
the lever used by Peter the Great to
lift Russia out of her stodgy Asiatic
habits into' the light of European cul
ture and commerce.
"Russia's window to Europe" was
the significant designation of St. Pe
tersburg before the war and revolu
tion. Riga and Warsaw now are
both the doors and windows of Rus
sia, when she chooses to use them,
and with the transfer of government
to the more centrally located city of
Moscow, Leningrad has lost its chief
reason for being much more than a
railway junction. Before the war it
had a population of 2,000,000. Now it
has fewer than one-third that number.
"Except for the main avenues^
Leningrad's streets are deserted;
grass grows between the cobble
stones, street cars are running half
empty when they do run, most of the
shop's and gay restaurants are closed.
The harbor holds no fleets trven when
the ice is out in April. Leningrad of
fers a melancholy sight to the tourist.
Stately mansions of royalty are turn -
ling in. Many were built on piles like
houses in Venice or Amsterdam and
the foundations are collapsing. Base
ments are filled with the Neva's over
flow and roofs and window frames
have been torn out long ago to sup
ply fuel for a desperate citizenry.
Famous parks are wildernesses.
Gaunt factories are empty and still.
Long streets of laborer's homes dilap
idated, echo to sound.
"How different when the brilliant
Catherine ruled 100 years ago! Some
called her Catherine the Great; many
called her Catherine^the Bad. Good or
bad, with an empire as large as the
Roman Empire from which to exact
wealth, she set a pace for extrava
gance, contempt for human life, and
loose living which Nero himself might
be pushed to equal. She built palaces
in rapid succession for her favorites
One of them, Orloflf, returned the fa
vor by strangling her husband, that
Catherine might satisfy her ambition
to be sovereign of all Russia from t e
Atlantic to the Pacific. For Potemkin
she built the Taurida palace at a cost
of millions, estimated in dollars, and
hundreds of lives. The Taurida pal
ace became the meeting place of the
Duma and in turn the birthplace of
the Soviet government.
"Potemkin, in his gratitude, gave
an entertainment typical of lavish
royal St. Petersburg. For illumina
tion $60,000 fvas spent. On one even
ing 140,000 lamps and 20,000 wax
randies were burning. Between U*
palace and the river, the whole "P**?
was occupied by booths, swings and
shops, where clothes, boota, caps an
iroe-gaws wsra distribtttad gratis to
tto pap to. Tta# tbowwd
were invited and all attended in cos
tume. White dressea of members of
the special ballet were decorated with
diamonds. Invisible music i. boxes
played selections of nuted composers.
When they were silent 300 musicians
and fingw? played and sang for the
merry-makers. Potemkin, himself, had
a crown for the occasion so heavy
with jewels he was compelled to give
it to his adjutunt to carry 1
"This for men capital of Russia has
always had tho reputation of being
disease ridden. Within the last year
the death rate has fallen lower than
the usual figure, which hovers about
00 per thousand. The reason offered,
however, is that the weak have all
died off and only the strong remain.
Ihis is what comes of a tsar's whim,
for Peter the Great' insisted that his
window to Europe' rise on the
swamp where the Neva enters a shal
low bay of tho Gulf of Finland. There
it stands, now girded 'r?und about
with gray granite quays, but the Nova
still gets out of hand when a stiff
southwest wind backs up water in the
bay. Royalty suffered along with serf.
1 eter died from fever caused by his
/escut1 of a peasant woman and child
I who had fallen through the ice. The
average reign of seven monarchs in
he first '10 years after tho founding
-5f the city was less than six years.
I.ctcr the Great had a 'marine
omplex. Russ.ans traditionally avoid
he ocean. lJut not Peter. He loved
he sea from boyhood when he satis
iied his longing by making boais,
'lis great desire was that Russia
should become a seafaring nation and
that his, capital would one day out
shine Venice or Amsterdam. So pro
found was his veneration of the
Dutch that he called his city Sankt
Petersboorgh. This became St. Peters
? bui1^ whieh gave way at tho opening
of the World war to Potrograd, be
cause the older name was too German.
Leningrad. lik? V#?n nnH Amofn>*
dam, has numerous canals, but unlike
these two cities, it can never be a
great port. The river and bay, for
one thing, are frozen solid six months
of tho year. The hinterland on which
Leningrad draws is a forest district.
Riga is the logical western port for
the great producing sections of
Russia.
"Leningrad ia- like* New York in its
utilization of islands at the river
mouth, but the main part of town is
on the south bank, corresponding to
Brooklyn, Leningrad is similar to
Washington. Like the capital of the
United States, it has broad avenues
radiating from the main government
buildings on the river bank. These
avenues are called prospects. The
chief of these is the Nevski prospect,
115 feet wide, running nearly three
miles from the Admiralty buildings
to tho Alexandra Nevskava monast
ery. It is lined with great bazaara,
rich homes, hotels, and government
buildings. In the old days shouting
sleigh-taxi drivers, perilously perched
on the thill, would race down this
snow-paved avenue, their splendid
black horses . three or four abreast
galloping like steeds of an ancient
chariot race. Leningrad's sleigh
bells now jingle faintly in a commun
ist state where the romance and ex
travagance of royalty give way to
realism."
Wanted New Trial.?
Joseph Schultz, the well known New
York lawyer, tells a story of a famous
lawyer who was induced to take a case
which had practically no chance of
being decided in favor of his client.
He put up a good fight however, and
the judge reserved decision, which
meant that he had taken the case un
der advisement and would announce
his verdict in a few days. In the
meantime, the client, who really did
not oxpetrt to win, had to leave town.
In the course of a few days tho judge
announced his decision, which, to the
great surprise of the famous lawyer,
was in favor of his client. Jubilantly
he telegraphed tho client:
"Justice has triumphed."
A couple of hours later ho received
a telegram from his client: '"Appeal
at once!"
Rub the back of a knife quite hard
over ripe tomatoes and see how easy
it is to remove the skins.
DOG TAX.
I wish to call special attention to
the dog license tax, which can be paid
from October 15th, 1923, to February
1st, 1924. (February 1st, 1924, is the
last day for the payment of this tax.)
The license tax on each dog is $1.25,
and I now have the license tags te
supply c/wners of dogs when paying
their license tax. A dog is liable to
this tax if six months old or older on
January 1st. (A dog born June 80th,
rl9ft*Ha ttaMrtO the tax January 1st,
1924.)
This is in lieu of all other taxes
or licenses on dogs, either county, mu
nicipal or otherwise
Dog license tax issued by the
Treasurer should bear the inscription
"Dog License 1924," alao show the
serial number and county. This la not
charyetf on the Auditor's Duplicate,
nor carried on the odinary tax re
ceipt. Stunt# receipt nwowury,
D. M. MeCASKlLL,
County Treasurer.
.
Ju8t Wautrd To Know.
Mr. Howland was not only the load
ing hardware merchant in the town,
but an active church worker. It used
to be his delight to inspect the Sun
day School of his church while it was
*h session, to offer advice and especial
ly. to be calU-'d upon to sp^tk to the
"little ones."
This Sunday the. lesson had been
about the Hood. Mr. Howland, called
upon to spfcak, told the children that
tho lesson had not been clear enough;
he would explain. Ho went on in
great detail to tell how the ark was
built, how the animals came aboard,
how land was Anally sighted. Then he
added: "Nqw if there is anything you
do not understand just ask questions
? ask mo any question."
'?Mr. , Howland!" A little boy pop-"
pea up.
"Yes, my little man, go ahead.
Don't be bashful. Ask me any ques
tion."
"How much is them air rifles in
your store window?"
Old bread or biscuit can bo mado
fresh by moistening and placing in an
oven until heated through.
Petijl Jurors. -
K. 13. Catoej Kershaw.
T. 1). Branham, Lugoflf.
F. R. Truesdale, Westville.
L. I). Jordan, Westville.
I). O. Houser, Camden.
C*, W. Htiggins, /Camden.
Shaylor Crow, Kershaw.
Lewis Barfield, Kershaw.
H. M. Rogers, Casshtt.
K. T. Rosborough, Lugoflf.
Zellie Catoe, Kershaw.
C. P. Lorick, Camden.
S. W. West, Camden.
W. P. Sowell, Jefferson.
NT CrArneUt, Camden.
J. J. Campbell, Camden.
J. L. King, Bethnne.
L. S. Myers, Camden.
J. T. Sinclair, Camden.
Henry Stroud, Kershaw.
J. N. McLeod, Camden.
R. W. Coleman, Camden.
R. E. McCaskill, Bethune.
E. L. Fields, Bethune.
L. S. Brown, Kershaw.
W. J. Stokes, Luckno^y.
H. N. Barnes, Camden.
L. E. Rabon, LugofF.
H. K. Hallett, Camden.
M. B. Wooten, Camden.
L. J. Faulkenberry, Kershaw.
W. W. Player, Bethune.
C. R. Cassady, Bethune.
,F. J. Tidwell, Cassatt. s
W. R. Hougff, Camden.
B. W. Best, Bethune.
Second Week Jurors.
Bryant Brannon, Camden.
David Jackson, Lugoflf.
L. T. Stewart, Camden.
W. C. Nicholson, Camden.
Baron Lee, Bethune.
J. T. Ross, Blaney.
E. W. Yarborough, Bethune.
W. F, Mattox, Camdon.
J. K. Uranium, Cassatt.
S. M. Carnes, Kershaw.
FJ. T. Arnold, Bethyne.
1>. (i. Joy, Camden.
Burwell Barfield, Camdon.
W. K. Phillips, Kershaw.
1). F. Hilton, Bethuno,
M. 1*. Johnson, Kershaw.
T. H. Richardson, English,
11. J. Catoe, Kershaw.
K. C. Bennett, Kershaw.
B. W, (Jettys, LukoIT.
K. T. Anderson, Cassatt.
S. B. Stokes, Camden.
W. A. Marshall, Camdon.
S. K. Broughton, Kershaw
W. C. Young, Kershaw.
Dove Haley, Betjnme,
I). L. Melton, Camden.
J, Q. Godwin, Camden.
S. W. Hornsby, Camden.
S, W. Itarttald, Kershaw.
J. W. Smith, Uethuno.
J. I). Sinclair, Camden.
J. L. Hranham, Hlaney.
G. R Munn, Weatviile.
.1. K. Vincent, Kershaw.
I). K. Hough, Kershaw.
FirNt Week Civil Court Juror*.
J. W. llornsby, Camden.
11. I). Gardner, Kershaw,
\V. J. Newman, Hethune.
K. A. McDowell, Camden.
J. W. Youiik, Kershaw.
F. 11. Arrants, Camden.
H. C. Kreppa, Camden.
K. T. Jonea, Kershaw. ,
C. L Young1, Weatville.
B. O. Boykin, Camden.
1>. L. McLaughlin, Caasatt.
H. A. Bruce, Camden.
J. W. Z. llearon, Weatville,
J. S. Munn, Hethune.
Yunoy Montgomery, Camden. k
A. J. Lollis, Camden..
J. R, Brannon, ImgofY,
Adolphus Hobo, Blaney.
Dork Hunter, Itethune.
\V. A. Waters, Camden. t
Harrison H. Hall, Luck now.
?John Cordor, Rnglisn.
10. N. Me Howell, ('iinulrii.
C. L. Poison, Camden.
A. S. Broom, Kershaw.
A. v). Smith, liethune.
Jus. A. MiCaskill, liethune.
It. ft. Chcwning, Camden.
K. W. Habon, LugoiT.
W. A. Rush, Camden.
L. M. Outlaw, Hethune. ?
Henry 1). Hoykin, Hoykin.
?J. P. Hasty, Canidin.
J. li. Hornsby, Camden.
?J. C. Hunter, Kershaw.
W. L. Kinard, Lugotf.
Last year 350,000 buyers
waited for delivery.
Insure yourself against delay
this spring by placing your
order for a Ford Car now.
See the Nearest
Authorized Ford Dealer
EVERYTHING FOR THE FARM
The year 1924 will be one of intensive cultivation to make two seeds grow where
only one has grown.
The farmers in Kershaw County during- the past year have been blessed with
good crops and good prices for their products, that in turn have made better busi
ness for us. The farmer is the main dependence in this county, as we are an
agricultural community.
We want to bring a few facts before our farmer friends. We have been in this
game for about 40 years supplying the wants of farmers and we take great pride
in the fact that we have been successful through these many periods of depres
sion and our friends have made it possible for our success.
Being prepared and continually and persistently keeping at the post, is the
secret, in a measure, of success.
We are Headquarters for FARMERS' SUPPLIES. Before making your pur
chases, come in and inspect our stock. We carry a full line of
FIELD FENCING, GARDEN WIRE, NAILS, CORRUGATED ROOFING
Car Composition Shingles in Transit.
STOVES, HARDWARE, CHATTANOOGA AND OLIVER PLOWS
COTTON PLANTERS, HAMES, TRACES, GUANO DISTRIBUTORS
Agents for Coheres Pedigreed Seeds.? See us before planting and we can supply
you with improved seed.
See the greatest device for the distribution of Nitrate of Soda. We have one
of the Soda Distributors on display in our window, and it will pay any Farmer who
has two to five tons of Nitrate of Soda to distribute
The majority of the better farmers are using Calcium Arsenate. It has demon
strated that it is the only insurance against the Boll Weevil. We handle molas
ses and arsenate in large quantities. We are agents for the Larrowe Milling
Company. The best Cow Feed that money can get. Try one sack and if not.
pleased with results your money back. The largest'dairies in the country say it's
the best by test. If you feed one Milk Cow or a herd it will pay you to get ac
quainted with Larro. Yours respectfully,
SPRINGS & SHANNON, Inc.
... J
** * r