The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 23, 1925, Image 7
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11<>u ; * oone-Hlnt|>?*tl roi'k M'piini'od
noli) our vVh'fi ashQJpe by Just one!
lulle of turbulent won. ' j
|?Jver.v man bus Ivyo lipinos; thero
are excellent houses on Hie Isliind
wiiii plenty of lueoinmutturlou for
wive* and fniniiies. But soiim? year*
ago the wisdom of Irish Lights tie*
rjtled thni we were belter apart, and
provided ".shore" houses for our fain- J
llles. We go there in the relief spells,
'.\iniJ and weathor permitting...
It Is better ?o*Yor the children, who
tan go JO MlMKitx am' belter for the I
wives. who are no loiiKt-r c^it oft from
the world. I
Wo three lonesome men en the rock
ure thoroughly sick of the sight of
each other's face#. We have far too
much of our own company. There is
not a surprise possible among us. tOor
long periods we exchange never a
word.
In every way a woman as constant
companion Is Infinitely to bje preferred.
At any rate I have never thrown used
to my wife or tired of her In this
way; perhaps because in 1& years 1
have never had u chance.
We are handy men; for our wives
we can do almost anythlng-~mend
clocks, make or mend clothes, chairs
and tables, toys and mats. Any one
of us can cook and serve up the Joint
of meat passably, after the manner of
men. The rest of our cooking l? done
mainly with a can opener.
One of the reasons why this Is a de
sirable station* Is because we can get
? weekly joint of meat and post, and
regular relief. At the Skelllgs, off the
coast of Kerry, rightly selected by the
monks of old as a safe refuge from
women, we sometimes lived for weeks
and mouths on rabbits and sea fowl.
We bad, luckily, a cocker spaniel who
would catch a rabbit on request.
By the aid of a glass we can see
plainly from this rock the front doors
of our homes across the water. The
whitewash is rubbed off our landward
wall, and there is a groove on the top
of it. There are no dilapidations on the
seaward wall.
Only once have I known*a man who
joined the lights to get away from
womeh. Soon, by marriage, he did his
best to' return to one of them.?Light
Koeper, In London Mail.
i Instinct of Bees
Bees are remarkable for the pos
session of Instinctive qualities that
lit them for almost every emergency
of their lives, but in some circum
stances their instinct falls to protect
them. A writer In an agricultural pa
lter says that in northern Massachu
setts there is more loss of bees from
llying in chilly .weather than from
any other" cause. Bees that fly In
fleecing temperature, or when it Is too'
cold for them to fly except for a short
distance, seldom survive to get back
to the hive, he says. His remedy to
discourage the bees from going out
when the weather is cold or snow is on
the ground is to shade the hive from
the direct rays of the sun. Unless
this is done they apparently think
summer is coming and It Is time for
them to be on the wing.?Outlook Mag
azine. ?
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Electricity on Farm*
Fourteen Minnesota farms have
been provided with every knoyrn elec
trically operated household or labor*
Having device, without cost to the
farmer. In a three-year test supervised
by professors of the agricultural
college of the University of Minnesota
to determine whether It Is practical
to .use electricity on farms. The
farms are in the Mississippi river val
ley, near Red Wing, Minn., and about
twenty miles south of Twin Cities.
They are situated along a trial power
line which measures 0.2 miles. The
farm homes are being equipped with
electric ranges, washing machines,
manglers, toasters and other devices.
The farmyard Is to be equipped with
electrically operated cream separa
tors, milking machines, feed grinders,
conveyors, thrashing machines and
wood sawing machines.
Natural Thought
He wore a long-tailed coat, a frock
tie and a stiff hat that marked him as
ai small-town aristocrat of the old
school. At the hotel he strolled
around the Jobby with an air of own
ership that was very impressive. But
in a three days' stay not a nickel had
been scattered among the help and
the word has spread fast that the
colonel was not all that he seemed
to be.
lie had Just had his "boots" sbined,
and as the boy brushed him off, he
remarked :
"George, what would you think If 1
cave you 50 cents for this shine?"
George answered right up:
"Ah would think you wanted fo'ty
cents change, suh."?Kansas City
Star.
? History of Candy
It is impossible to say when candy
is such was first used. The word
fcandy" wa,s orlgnally derived from
inskrlt "khanda,". meaning "break."
one Kense candy Is as old as the
of extracted sugar. Sugar was
>bably flr?t manufactured in India,
ience Jt was Introduced Into Arabia.
" through the Mocffr* spread to Spain
the rest of Kcirope. - But the man
kctura of candy In the modern sense
comparatively new. Candy was
la Israel and In ? the Seventeenth
Eighteenth c*?tTaWee when it
by apothecaries and
the taste of
a ifuttjTj
that
HAS ,NEW DEVICE
TO RECORD QUAKES
Creamer Accuracy Is Also
Promised by Savant.
Washington.--The (ir<>rgetownk uni
versity srislnolo^uul uhst-rv atory,
which 111 the Inst l;< \ ?'iirs hits to
tin* world first news of many .earth
quakes, now assures the public that
Its reports In. the future wtU b0 even
moiv dependable.
Tin' university todny lias anions Itm
instruments a now sol.sinograph,
known as the Gal it/, in vortical seismo
graph, the only one of its kind on this
side of the Atlantic.
The special features of this delicate
piece of apparatus are mugnetlc regla
trutiou and photographic recording,
whereby the element of friction In the
other types of machines is- entirely
eliminated. Accordingly, the machine
will permit of the recording of many
more of the world's quakes and permit
of a more accurate Interpretation of
the writings of a shaking eurtlj.
Doctor Sleberg of the Jena selsmo
logical station places the number of
qtjakes felt sensibly or Instrumental!?
the world over from 0,000 to 10,000
yearly. Of these In the past only from
00 to 110 have been annually recorded
of Georgetown. Father Francis A.
Tondorf, director of the observatory,
hopes that this number may now reach
from 300 to 400.
When It first was founded in 1011
the Georgetown observatory had only
one seismograph?of tho Welcliert
type. It carried a stationary mass of
80 kilos. The rocking during wind
storms of the south tower of the Healy
building* in whose baset the instru
mcnts were at (irst placed; necessitat
ed their removal to a cave beneath
the quadrangle.
Father Tondorf Inaugurated the
work at Georgetown when, in 1910,
the International Seismological society
requested the Jesuit order, with many
colleges in the United States, to estab
lish a chain of stations In this coun
try. rv
Pilot Willing to Be
target for "Death Ray"
Walter Sutter of Elizabeth, N. J.,
an experienced army pilot, who baa
come forward expressing his willing
ness to fly a plane into the path of
Grindfell Matthews' "Death Ray" and
claims that the ray will not bring him
down in his plane even at the mean
height of 1,000 fee^t. lie also states
that an experienced flyer would not
have his plane wrecked by the ray
without some sort oi a struggle.
Refugee Family Tells
of Hardships in Mexico
Norfolk,/ Va.?Deprived of their
ranch" and property accumulated in 10
years of hard work and forced by the
Mexican revolution to flee penniless
and without food, Wllhelm von Wal
denfels and his family of four have
arrived here en route to Germany.
They brought a harrowing tale of
flight from, their home In the interior
of Tabasco, a 48-hour trip down the
Grljalva river to Frontera in a dilapi
dated sailboat steered by a Mexican
girl; of lost direction and the piling
of the craft on the rocks and the flght
against drowning and. Anally, of the
long Journey afoot from Frontera to
Vera Cruz.
At Vera Cruz the refugees, hungry
and sick, had their first bit of good
luck in the presence in the harbor of
a steamer. They had no money, but
Captain Grashoff, a fellow country
man, waved aside the question of
passage.
Dec'ares New Glands
Give Sheep More Wool
Liege, Relgiuin.?Dr. Serge
Voronoflf, famous French sur
geon, addressing a scientific con
gress here, claimed It would be
possible to Increase the yield of
wool by applying big gland
transplantation operation to
siieep.
Although the operation cannot
h$ performed successfully on nil
blfecp. he said, he hoped to be
nble to create a special breed by
operation on the direct descend
ants of a certain number of
picked specimens. <
The experiment was already
hein* made, lie announced, on a
flnrl fff .TW> thccp. Is Alf?rt?.
?n.l ?_!?. OH ? number of jpwt*
HISTORY "OF Kl'KAI. 8KRVICK
l'(jrow? From Small Beginning to One
of (ireut Mugnitude
Few institutions in the history of
American progress can be credited
with a more salutary effect upon
the march of that progress than the
rural mail service of the Post Office
department.
No other single instrumentality
has done more than the rural mail
service toward "bringing the city to
the country", and relieving the
prosaic existence of farm life, or has
been as effective in establishing
closer contact between the farmer
and hiK markets. It has been the
most important factor In making ag
riculture an exacting business in
stead of its one-time precarious clas
sification which conveyed no broader
meaning than "tilling the soil."
Twenty*nine years ago the farmer,
and his wife, and children, led an
existence of almost complete isola
tion, living upon widely scattered
farms, soine of them miles apart.
They had comparatively little com
munication with their neighbors or
the outside world, except that de
rived from weekly trips to the adja
cont village. More often than not
the farmer lost a full day's work and
his crops were neglected in order to1
obtain expected mail at the village !
post office.
. ? .1
In those ciays the farmers' mail
consisted largely of communications
from relatives and friends. Today
the daily mail includes, usually on
the very date of publication, the met
ropolitan newspaper, containing mar
ket reports and agricultural news;
the weekly and monthly farm jour
nals and magazines, and business let
ters from the village merchant and
the more pretentious establishment in
the distant city. All of these are
now brought to his door or to the box
a few yardg away.
The rural carrier is the farmer'.*
post office and his agent. Through
him he conducts transactions for the
sale of his live stock, grain, and
other farm produce. From him he
buys stamps and pays his bills by
postal money order. In short, the
letter carrier is the medium that has
transformed the once Secluded habi
tant of the rural district into a cos
mopolitan citizen, conversant with
current affairs and 'occupying a lar-<
ger place in the destinies of a great
nation. , ?
?It was Postmaster General John
Wanamaker who first officially sug
gested in 1891 the rural mail idea to
Congress. The plan was fought in
the legislative branch of the govern
ment for five years before it was
given a tryout.
The first bill authorizing the es-!
tablishment of the service was intro- j
duced in the House by Representa-,
tive James O'Donnell of Michigan,
January 5, 1892. It carried an ap
propriation of $6,000,000 but failed
of passage. A year later Congress
was induced to appropriate $10,000
for experimental purposes followed in
1894 by $20,000 more. Mr. Wanna
maHer, believing the amount insuffi
cient even for experimental service,
declined Jo use the money,
On January 8,' 1 Sim;, |10tQQ0 was
added by Congross and on October 1,
the same year the first experimental
jural delivery service was established
simultaneously on three routes in
West Virginia, one from Chartcstown,
one from Uvilla, and one from llall
town. From this small beginning,
nine months later found the service
operating on 82 routes emanating
from 43 post offices in 29 states.
Twenty-eight .wars later, or June .U),
1924, the liurl Mail Service Jiad
grown to 44,260 routes with a total
mileage of 1,205,714.
In comparison with the insignifi
cant ppropriatiftn of $10,000 made by
Congress more than a quarter of a
century ago to inaugurate the ser
vice, it now requires an annual ex
penditure of $89,260,000 to keep it
functioning. ,,
The first county to be completely
covered by Rural Mail Service was
Carroll County, Maryland, where
county service was established De
cember 20, 1899. There are very few
counties in the country today that
are not honeycombed to the utter
most with free mail delivery.
By 1915, 20,080 fourth class post
offices had been discontinued as a
result of the extension of the Rural
Mail Service. It is estimated that,
an annual saving of $1,013,040 was
I accomplished by the discontinuances
of these offices while the elimination
of star, or contract routes is esti>
hiated to save $3,482,670 per annum.
When the service was first inuag
urated the salaries of, rural carriers
was only $200 a year. They may
now get as much as $2,100 a year,
depending on the length of the routes,
while the motor routes of 50 miles
or more pay salaries of $2,450 to
$2,000.
.Under the administration of H, H.
Billany, present. Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General, a marked^ in
crease .in rural delivery facilities has
been made, the number of routes
climbing from 43,049 to 44,760; the
mileage from 1,159,239 to 1,205,714
and the number of individuals served
from 29,113,883 to 29,921,128.
Accepts Pastorate at Clover
Rev. John "K. Hay, a native of
Liberty Hill, who has been pastor of
| the Presbyterian church of Brevard,
j N. C., has accepted a call to the
| Presbyterian church of Clover, York
: county, to succeed the Rev. J. Blan
| ton Belk who recently moved to Or
lando, Fla., to become pastor of the
Presbyterian church at tfcat place.?^
Lancaster News.
Wild geese cast their feathers in
' summer, losing almost all the feath
ers from their wings simultaneously.
During this season they are helpless
and the natives of Northern Russia
take advantage of the condition and
net them by the thousands. They are
buried in the mud of the swamps and
left to rot. Later they are dug up and
fed to the half-wild dogs and are even
eaten by the undiscriminating native.
MKMM1NC.KR KKKLECTKO
(jtwrty Hill Man Also lie-elected
Railroad Commissioner
Columbia, Jan. 1(5. Elections to
fill fifteen places in judicial an<l ex
ecutive department* of the state gov
eminent were held here, today by
the State Legislature in joint assem
bly. Moth houses met at noon in the
hall of the House of Representatives
and nominations were made and bal
lots taken for a two hour period.
Lieutenant Governor Kdmund B,
Jackson, by virtue of his office as
president of the Senate, automatically
became presiding officer of the joint
assembly. -
On motion of .Senator Stewart,
Lancaster, the prevailing rule was
suspended so as to permit election of
unopposed candidates by vote of ac
clamation, saving the General As
sembly considerable time in the elec
tions.
Alfred A.* Richardson, of Colum
bia, was reelected chief game war
den, over R. Hugh Belser, of Sum
mertori, and W. J. Muldrow, of An
derson, on the first ballot. The vote
was Kichardson SS; Muldrow 01;
Belser 16.
Marvin M. Mann, attorney of St.
Matthews and clerk of the Senate,
was ynopposed for judge of the
First Judicial Circuit, succeeding the
late Judge I. W. Bowman, of Orange
burg. . Solicitor A. J. Hydrick, of
Orangeburg, who previously had an
nounced, had withdrawn from the
race.
For judge of the Fifth Circuit, W.
H. Townsend, of Columbia, incum
bent, was reelected by a vote of ac
clamation. He was nominated by
Mendel L. Smith, of Camden, mem
ber of the House of Representatives
and former judge.
Judge Thomas S. Sease, of Spar
tanburg, was reelected judge of the
u
Seventh Judicial Circuit.
In the Ninth Circuit race, Judge
H. W. Mcmminger, of Charleston,
defeated Oetavus Cohen, also of Chav
lesion, for the place, 135 to I t.
Four railroad comniisalonors wore,
elected, They were John C. Coney
of Ueeve?>ville, reelected; James &I.
Peatman, of Anderson, reelected over
John M. Uagan, of Due West; John
Ileftry Nance, of Laurens, who de
feated the incumbent, II. H. Arnold,
of Woodruff, for reelection, and John
(J. Richards, of Liberty Hill, who
succeeded himself in office.
Dr. Wallace W. Fenm-ll, of Itoek
Hill, chairman of the board of trus
tees of the State Medical College,
was - again named a member of the
board. Other trustee.*, chosen wero
I)r. W, A. Tripp, of Anderson; Dr.
O. A. Matthews, of Bennettsville; and
Dr. Thomas H. Pope, of Newberry.
Others nominated but not elected
were Dr. S. H. Fiahburne, of Colum
bia, Dr. Clarence M? Workman, of
Spartanburg, and Dr. K. H. Wo.y
man, of Kstill..
Wallace C. Bethea, of Orangeburg,
was elected a member of the board
of trustees of the State Negro Col
lege at Orangeburg, succeeding F. W.
r. Butler, of Columbia, deceased.
South Has Come Into Own
New York, Jan. 16.?The South is
sound and finally has come into its
own; the poople are cheerful and*
they, all are making money, accord- '
ing to Fairfax Harrison, president of
the Southern railway who predicted^
today that the road would have its
greatest year in 1926. Earnings in
1924 wero slightly more than in
1923 he said, it being too early to
determine the amount accurately^ No
new equipment will be bought this
spring. The suit of the Southern's
preferred stockholders for back divi
dends probably will come up for-ar
gument in February.
yplarine
The
Depositors
The depositors are the real builders
of this bank. They make the bank
possible and there is no success for
this bank which does not depend
upon the success of its depositors.
The First
National Bank