Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BET ON ANYTHING * Lloyd's j^of England i*u Oldest Freak in hi an<? Company. Whin Harold l.loyd, m um h romo tlian, married Mildred Davies, also a photoplay atar, he hoped, like all good : husbands, to become a father ut sa ne fairly early stage of the game. The famous comedian realized, however, that blessings can come in too heavy, a shower, A little stranger in the home was all right, but the possibility of the arrival of two little strangers was more than he cared to face. Therefore he got himself insured for $25,000 against the arrival of twins. Recently the nurse appeared before, the distracted Harold and said, "It's a girl!" So the $25,000 was not cpl leeted, and little Mildren Gloria?that is her name, not "Horaldia," as was suggested?owes her father whatever premium he may have paid to protect himself against the possibility of her multiplying herself by two. Financial protection againstv twins neems a strange thing, but it is noth ing new to the insurance world. That and many other possible disasters may be insured against. Have you qualms when you consider that Henry Ford might be president of the United States? Is there in your mind the dread possibility that your sweetie may marry the other guy? Calm yourself. Against any or all of these eventualities certain institu tions stand ready to insure you for any sum you care to mention?pro vided you will pay the premium re quired. This form of insurance dates from the foundation of the historic turn of Lloyd's of London, in 1700. That in stitution originally was composed of men who frequented Lloyd's coffee house on Tower street-in the English capital. These men were nearly nil in the shipping game, and it became a habit with them to underwrite each other's cargoes, each of a number taking a small amount of the sum asked. Thus, as was stated some time before by Queen Elizabeth in a ?rnrnITT. dated perishing of a ship there followeth not the undoing of any man, but the loss lighteth rather easily upon many than heavily Upon few." Thus it was in the beginning, but^ people soon became interested in oth er forms of speculations. The traffic in marine insurance continued; but there were found persons ready and willing to "insure" against anything. The rates such policies were de termined by simple chaffering, and a list of odds was posted daily. Some most amazing things were insured against. In 17(H), for example, Lloyd'* lost a "policy" stating that a man could not go to Lapland and bring back two reindeer and two Lapland women! The list ^rfffiained such items as follows: "That Mr. A- will not he elected member of parliament from Somer set, 25 per cent." (Otitis of 2.r> to 100). ??That Mr. B will die within the year, 14 per cent. "That So-and-So will be cast out of office within six months, 10 per cent. ? "That there will "be war with France or Spain within the year, ?S per cent;" ' "That Mr. C will not complete his full term in prison. 14 per cent.' And a man could insure the chasti ty of his daughters or himself against divorce! \ This is freak insurance?a form of gambling?and of course the old line organizations want none of it. Hut the Lloyd idea, under various dis guises, has found imitators in the United States. These organizations are not "corporations." Their poli tics are underwritten by the members as individuals. These members take the risk and offer as pledges thcii own wealth. In the English concern each member pledges his first three years' earnings and his entire person al fortune to the venture. The mem bers' names are attached to the policj as "underwriting members," and they are liable as individuals?not as a corporation?to the amount each one subscribes. If you want to >ue \ou must sue each of the under wt it ing members individually. In the case of Lloyd's these suits must be brought in the house of lords. American it. stitutions have not thi* distinguished privilege. The premium rate.- >i?vh po.a a-s are determined by ?-or.ferenccs be tween the members. Previous experi .nee helps in determining the rate; hut new in>111uti<? r - always arc < m ing up. That is the ba>ic idea; w( .- .v.. you against anything, bu'. yen mu-: agree to our term*. ( urious poiicter are :.~.~u?'-d h> i^n cerns takings risks of this kind. A milliner in White Plain', X. Y., in sured himself against ram on Easter Sunday. Protected a- he was, he broadcast an advance notice saying that any lady who purchased a hat from hiro would get her money back if H rained on Ea*t?r day and comld keep the hat, in addition. Noedlejja to Hay, he <iid a land office bu*lue&K. A motion picture concern \fi#hed to take out a large policy to protect it in the event Pola Negri got married, it feared that matrimony might dierupv the xtur'n plans to iuch an extent-..as to invalidate her contract with it. Insurance against rain in familiar to every one; but there is one form of P<?liry that is somewhat unusual. It amounts tiimply to a beJL that it will or will not rain at a certain, point, perhaps miles away from the pliM-'e insured, One proprietor of an amuse* ment park insured himself against rain on a certain holiday, the policy reading that ohe*tenth of an inch of rain at the New York weather bureau would suffice for him to collect. Ilia amusement park was far away from the bureau. A thunder shower flood ed the weather bureau's gauge and the promoter collected, although the sun had blazed' on his park all after* noon. Of course, the eUuatlon might have been reversed, in whieh ease the proprietor would have t>een out his premium. Henry Ford Seems to be a atyrm center for freak insurance. A policy of $10,000 has been taken out against his being elected president of the United States, and another for the same amount against his not being able to acquire Mussel Shoals. One might imagine other forms of policies that mitfht be taken out concerning Mr. Ford and his principal product, but there! Let each man write his own. The fluctuations of congressional activities also furnish a fruitful field for qujoer insurance policies. Recently an importer desired to protect a car go of chemicals. The ship was to sail a short time before the new tariff act went into effect, and the importer wished to be insured thatf she would arrive in this country before the bill was passed, * GENERAL NEWS NOTES The 1924 Nobel prize in medicine has been awarded to Prof. William Einthoven of Ley den university, for his invention of the "Cardiogram" mechanism, whereby it is possible to make motion picture X-ray records of the humun heart movement*"* Lewis K. Rittenhouse, president of a rubber company at Orange, N. J., was killed by two bandits Monday night within a short distance of his home when he resisted, their .demand to hold up his hands. One of the bandits, a negro, was arrested shortly afterwards. Treasure seekers, hunting for the wreck of the sunken steamship Meri da, which went down off the Virginia coast in 1911, have found the ship in 250, feet of water off the Virginia Capes. The vessel is supposed to have a cargo including gold, silver and jewels valued at from $2,000,000 to $5,000,000. A wrecking company will try to raise the great wealth. Percy 1). Haughton, famous foot bull coach of Columbia university, died Monday in a New York hospital, following an attack of acute indiges tion. Mrs. Anna Uauptrief, held in jail at Austin, Texas, charged with mur dering four of her step-children by poisoning, hanged herself in hor cell Thursday night. The -remains of seventy men, exe cuted by the Irish Free States during 1922 and 1923, have been turned over to relatives and friends for removal from original graves to other burial spots, Clifford M. Holland, chief engineer of the tunnel under the Hudson river connecting New York and Jersey City, now practically completed, died in a Rattle Creek, Mich., hospital Tuesday. All of the 1.100 convicts, including 100 women, in the. state penitentiary at Moundsville, West Virginia, went on a strike Monday night because of an effort on the part of prison author ities to institute a longer work day. The convicts defied machine guns, the water hose, etc., and made the night hideous with screams, cat calls, etc. j Exhaustion brought quiet after a ; night of disorder. Frank G. Lowden, former governor, of Illinois; John Lee Coulter, presi- i dent of the North Dakota agricultu-j ral college, and Samuel Adams, edi-1 tor, are among the names suggested as a possible successor to the late | Secretary Wallace, as the head of the agricultural department. During the nine months ending September 30. 1,500,905 Ford car units were sold in the United States,' the total breaking all former records and exceeding production, the excess of sales being of cars caV'ried over in the hands of dealers from 1923. George Home, a county chain gang guard, is in a critical condition at the Greenwood hospital from injuries re-, ceived late Wednesday when he was I struck on the head by a piece of heavy timber. Home was driving wagon loaded with dirt to a bridge near Mountain Creek .school house. Two piece s of timber had been put-at the end of the bridge to make a pas-' >avjcway for 'he front wheels and when he drove i?n them one piece-was knocked up and "truck him on the h? ad. fracturing hi> skull at the base ? ?f the brain. Dr. .lohn L. Marshall, unty physician, reports that Home m a precarious condition. Harry Gaeslin of Hagerstown, Md., was k 11i#*d by his 14-year-old step- j son Friday night after Gaeslin had threatened the boy's mother with a loaded revolver. ?jjj ? Lieutenant George Cuadihy, in a CR-3 hydroplane at Baltimore, Md., Saturday made a speed of 1&0.13 miles per hour ever aSpecifled coarse. This speed broke all records for mi* - - ? ?^ --?? - BUFFALO IN SOUTH CAROLINA Said to Have Disappeared from I'pper South Carolina About 1775. Tin- 1 * >t< I f??. #111. In a communication published in the Columbia State J. H. O'Neall HoU loway of Nlloree, says: "I remember well that when a boy, Home 60 years ago, when attending my father's cows In nearby pastures, just, below the little town of I'omaria there is a small hill?the Southern Railway runs thru the edg<- of it? known then as Buffalo Lick, a name given to it and handed down to my time, no doubt from the practice of buffalo going there to lick .salt /rom the rocks and sides of the hill. 4 "Also do I recall that on both sides of Crim's Creek for a great distance ?a small stream near Poma|ia and east of it?there were canebrakes? canes without number, some of the largest specimens I have ever seen 'and furnishing feeding "and hiding places for wild masters of the forests that must have undoubtedly covered the whole country at that time. Evi dently buffaloes must have roamed those hills and dales around Pomafia many years ago. None aru there now." Some interesting references to the buff alo?yi-thru used to be numerous in this state are marshalled in John H. Logan's "History of the Upper Coun try of South Carolina." The natural pastures of the uplands made this section attractive to these wild crea tures. Logan says that "the buffalo . ... roamed in large herds thru the open woods and prairies, and found both pasture and concealment in the carijp thickets of the rivers and creeks." At the earliest period of emigration into upper South Carolina Henry Foster, a pioneer from Vir ginia, often counted a hundred buffa loes grazing on (one acre in the.pres ent territory of Abbeville and Edge field. When the first settlers on Dun can's Creek in Laurens county arrived from Pennsylvania, they found buffa loes abundant. "Their deep-worn ? i-HiK li'innnp- La_iiivorito rangea-and licks, marked the country in every direction." These paths could be trac ed long after the buffaloes had dis appeared. The old hunters killed great numbers of them solely for their skin and tongues, for deer and wild turkeys sufficed for metiU Buf faloes were quickly exterminated or driven off. Logan says that' "they were the first of all the original game of upper Carolina except the timid elk, to disappear." The Cherokee Indians who dwelt in the Piedmont section before the ad vent of the whites, called the buffalo "yandsa," meaning "the very great bull," or "the Bull of God." This was the universal name for this animal used by all the tribes of North Amer ica. The Indian women made from its thick, shaggy hair a kind of cloth much used by them because of its warmth and durability. The gay young warriors often wore locks or rt>ys of buffalo fur, drawn thru their long slitted ears and on notable fes tive or military occasions mounted upon their brows, already hideously painted, a pair of buffalo horns, "with the appendage of the tail, also, in its proper place." The skins of the buffa lo and bear formed the chief cover ings for the beds of the Cherokees. The venerable Busby, who lived to I the age of 110, related that he had ' often seen at one time 3,000 buffaloes on the Long Meadows of Little River 1 in Fairfield district. They were more plentiful in the fertile valleys of York district than anywhere else and that region was famous for them, the hun- ( ters having gone there more fre quently than to any other section. In primitive times the Cherokees on foot hunted the buffalo solely with the how and spear, entering a herd singling out the ones they wanted and bringing them down at close quarters with their flint-pointed ar rows. Later they hunted on horse back, armed with the rifle. Occasion ally they resorted to the method "bf driving them, when moving in large herds over steep precipices. James Adair wrote that buffaloes had become scarce in South ( arolina about the time of the commencement of the War of the Revolution, since the thoughtless, wasteful Indians used to kill large numbers of them on!\ for their tongues and marrow bones, leaving the rest of the car casses to wolves and other wild beasts. Logan thinks that buffaloes disappeared from upper South Caro lina about No arrests were made at the fair j grounds in Columbia during big Thursday of the negro state fair, F. S. Strickland, chief of Columbia police, said at a late hour Wednesday night. Several Columbia officers commented on the quiet manner in which negroes conducted themselves during the day. No negroes were ar rested big Thursday of their fair week laRt year. The body of Henry C. Wallace, late secretary of agriculture in President (oolidge'a cabinet, was burled *1 D* Iowa, Vf - . John I). McLean Dead. John D McLean, a well known negro barber, died in a Columbia hos pital last Saturday after a lingering illness. He had been in ill health for some time but his death came rather unexpected. For many years he had been asso ciated with his father, the late George McLean, in conducting a barber whop under the firm name of Mcl^ean & Son. In recent yeajrs John McLean had acquired control of the shop and hud accumulated a good lot of prop erty. He had the respect and confi dence of the white people as many of them have been lifelong patrons of his place. He was a married man and in survived by his wife and one daughter. He is also survived by his atep-mother and a large number of brothers and sisters?all of whom have made good citizens of Camden. The fpmeral and burial awaited the arrival of relatives residing elsewhere and was not held until Tuesday after* noon. It took place at Trinity Meth dist church and was conducted by his pastor, Rev. B. P. Bradford, with a brief service. Many of his white friends attended the services and there was a large floral offering from both white and colored. Coleman. L. Blease, Democratic nominee for the United States senate, spoke at the Marlboro fair, at Ben nettsville, last Saturday. Although speaking as a guest, he saw proper to refer to certain state matters be cause, according to precedent and cus tom his expressions on such subjects would be limited after the election. Commenting on the Clertison college situation, he recalled that when gov ernor he had recommended in mes sages to general assembly that the state obtain ownership and control of Clemson. The name, he said, should be changed to Calhoun university. The life trusteeships should be abol ished. The state should name the trustees and provide adequate sup port for it. Five bandits ran their car into that of a pay car of a Whippany, N. J., manufacturing concern Saturday,, kidnapped the three occupants of the pay car, trussed them to trees in a nearby woods and escaped with a payroll of $7,000. State police seized two large stills and a big lot of mash in the home of two citizens of Pleasantville, N. J., early Tuesday morning. The moon shiners were leaking the stuff in a house said to be a factory for the manufacture of salt water taffy, for sale on the boardwalk at Atlantic City. The discovery of the stills was made following the explosion and fire incident to the explosion of a third still. W. T. McCray, ex-governor of In diana, now serving a term in the At lanta federal prison, has become the editor of the prison paper, "Good Words," issued each month. The government of Poland has about completed arrangements for the funding of its $168,000,000 debt to the United States. World's Greatest Circus! - ?v-.?/. -? ????: -? iii '^l.V .' " "* ? ?r-T.-. '< ?'????."?:' . ? v i ? -I: V V 'Vv Combined Adam Hind paw and Barndoor Bailhay Ringlesa Circus at W atereei^aff Park November 15th Mammoth ? A Tented Circus wT?r rVw ? % * - * Watch For Big Street Parade at Noon TWO BIG SIDE SHOWS ~ ' *> A. * V . .. Show promptly atMp.m.?Admission 25c Negro Fair Successful ' Columbia, S. C., Nov. 1.?Crowtjs estimated at between 8,000 and 10,000 people have been on the . grounds from day to day throughout the negro state fair, which followed the state fair here. Displays of farm, and gar den products, domestic art and man ual training work were features.- ^ y ? ?? ? ? ii ??????> ^ in I >ii i FINAL DISCHARGE Notice is hereby given that one Vionth from this date on Monday, December 8, 1924, I will friak? to the Probate Court of Kershaw County my final return as Executor of the estate Of Samuel Hunter, deceased, anfl on the same date I will apply to thq $$jd Court for a final discharge froiti ttVy trust as said Executor* w. a. Mcdonald* Camden, S. C., Nov. 0, 1924. $?',v . ' I - ^i'. ?SUMMONS FOR REUEJP, ^ State of South Carolina, County of Kershamv^vavV^ (In the Court of Common Pleas) H. G. Carrison, Plaintiff; " against S. H. Truesdale, Henry J. 'truesdale, J. C. Truesdale, Drusilla Huckabee,) Maggie McLeod, Mattle Truesdale, Sam C. Vaughan, ' William K.' Vaughan, P^ty;! Vaughan,. and Daisy Vaughan, Germany Roy Brown Co., and Roberts & Hoge Shoe Co., Inc., and Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, Defendants. To the Defendants: You arc hereby summoned and re quired to answer the complaint in ,this action which' has been this day filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the 3aid County, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscriber at his office at Camden, S. C., within twenty day* after the service thereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and-if you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court- for the relief demanded.in the complaint. LAURENS T. MILLS, Plaintiff's Attorney. Tfr the non-resident defendants Dr\| silla Huckabee," Maggie McLeod, Mattie Truesdale, Sam C. Vaughan, Daisy Vaughan, and Roberts and Hoge Shoe Co., Inc.: You will please take notice that the Complaint in the above entitled action was filed in the offioe of the Clerk of Court of Common Pleas for Kershaw County at Qamden, S. C., on the 4th day of October, 1924. LAURENS T. MILLS, Plaintiff's Attorney. EVERY HOUSEWIFE IN CAMDEN IS INVITED To call at our store any time on Saturday next, November 8th, and taste for them selves how extra delicious as a whole- s some, economical spread for bread, how rich and fine for cooking, is KING NUT \ v M ^-3 "To Spread on Bread?To Enrich Your Cooking" KINGNUT Contains all the goodness of cocoanuts, peanuts and pure milk, from which it is made. Saturday, Nov. 8, Only , t m ' ~r* SPECIAL AND SALE As a special inducement for YOU to sample KiNGNUT in your own home, we offer, for Saturday ONLY, the very special price of ? in 1-pound prints Quality, Prices and Service Are Always Right , LEWIS & CHRISTMji CAMDEN, S. C. 6 =? ?