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/ociety ily MIhh Lou 1 we Nettle* The River of Life Thtr more we live, more brief appear Our lify'f* succeeding stages; A day ty childhood seems a year, And j#! like passing age?. I hr gladsome current of our youth, I,,, passion yet disorders, Steals lingering like a river smooth Along its grassy borders. Hut as the care-worn cheek grows' / >vant Ana sorrow's shafts fly thicker. Ye stars, that measure life to man, Why seem your courses quicker? When joys have lost their bloom and breath Anil life itsself is vapid, Why as we reach the Falls of Death Feel we its tide more rapid ? ft may seem strange?yet who would change Time's course to slower speeding, When one by one our friends have gone ? . And left our bosoms bleeding? Heaven gives our years of fading strength Indemnifying fleetnees; And those of youth a. seeming length Proportioned to their sweetness,' Campbell. Was a Charming Affair The Silver Tea given at the Metho dist parsonage on the evening of Jan. 18th by the Rebecca DeLoache circle was a very charming affair, v The rooms were appropriately dec orated with the Confederate colors, and a portrait of General Robert E. Lee held a prominent place in the settings. At a table with dainty ap pointment of snowy linen, glistening silver and lights gleaming from red tapers, Mrs. B. G. Sanders and Mrs. J. A. West poured tea and coffee, which, with wafers and cakes, were served by four maidens in costumes of the 60's. Despite the inclemency of the even ing, a large crowd assembled, and were then presented with an oppor tunity of meeting Rev. and Mrs. G. T. Peeler, who have recently coma among us. Mrs. Spong Passes Crisis The many friends of Mrs. Ernest M. Spong will be delighted to know that she is much improved after hav ing been .critically ill since Tuesday morning in a hospital in Camden, s. c. Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy Blakeney, the former a brother of Mrs. Spong, and Mrs. J. P. Little, Jr., and Mr. Shelby Spong, sister and brother of Mr. Spong, returned to Charlotte, yesterday afternoon from Camden where they have been since Wednes day. Mrs. Spong is one of Charlotte's most popular young matrons. The twins of Mr. and Mrs. Spong, a boy and a girl, are getting along nicely.?Saturday's Charlotte Obser ver. The little boy has been named Er nest, Jr., and Rosalin will be the name of the young lady. Friends in Camden of Mrs. Spong, who was Miss Katherine Blakeney, are also delighted to know that tehe is steadily improving. The little twins have been attracting great attention at the hos pital. Majestic Theatre Programme Today, Friday, Jan. 30 King Vidor's "WIFE OF THE CENTAUR" Here's the novel that set the world talking?now in pictures. With John Gilbert and Aileen Pringle Also a Sennett Comedy "Black Oxfords" Saturday, Jan. 31 Thfe story of a dog and a man hunt in the Argentine "THE SILENT ACCUSER" - with Peter the Great as the secret service dog and Raymond McKee and Eleanor Boardman 4' Also the first of the "GO-GETTERS" With all of the Fightinf Blood Cast ? ? i ????????????m Monday, Feb. 2 RICHARD DIX IN A Paramount Picture "A MAN MUST LIVE" , "" Based on "Jungle Law" by I. A. R. Wylie Also Pathe News Tuesday, Feb. 3 Thomas H. Ince Presents "IDLE TONGUES" Based on the famous novel "Dr. NyeM With Percy Marmont and Doris Kenyon Also a Christie Comedy Wednesday ac Thursday Jack Holt, Ernest Torrence, I/oi? Wilson and Noah Berry in "NORTH OF 36" By Emerson Hough Even a more enthrilling story than "The Covered Wagon". Over a trail of over 1,000 thrills. ^With Sped.! MBftical Pro) ? -j.; f ;? * PERSONAL MENTION Mis? Kancy Lindsay is visiting in Charlotte. Miss Dorothy Burns and Eleanor Mitchell spent the week end in Sum ter. \ Miss Insley Howell of Kaston, Pa., is the attractive gu^st of Mrs. ('ale'/ Whitaker, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Spigner of Columbia were thi- guests this week of Mr. and Mrs. fitoney. Miss Mattie Gerald has gone to the northern and eastern markets to purchase her spring millinery. Mr. A. Sam'Karesh, of the Fashion Shop, left this week for the north ern markets to purchase goods for his store. Friends aiv pleain.I to Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Riddle of New Jersey, annual visitors in Camden, and they an: again at the Court"\Inn for tho reason. Sheriff G. C, Welsh was m Co lumbia Wednesday where he attend ed a meeting of the sheriffs of South Carolina in conference with Governor McLeod. Friends of Mrs. H. D. Niles will be pleased to le4rn that she is im proving at the Camden hospital where she underwent a serious operation on Monday. Mrs. W. G. Wilson, Jr., and child ren, Jean Ray and Billy, of Camden, spent the week-end with her mother, Mrs. J. J. Davis and her sister, Mrs. G. A. Stoud on Oakland avenue. ? Monday's Sumter Item. Troy West, formerly of this county, but recently of Raleigh, N. C., was operate^ on at the Camden hospital this week for appendicitis. He is reported to be recovering rapidly. Friends of Mrs. Stevens, of Che raw, who is the mother of Mrs. keroy Davidson, of Camden, and John *T. Stevens, of Kershaw, will regret to know that she is confined to the Camden hospital suffering from a broken thigh as the result of a fall at Cheraw several days .ago. Hobkirk Hill Chapter to Meet The Hobkirk Hill Chapter D. A. R. will meet at the home of Mrs. F. I. Proctor, on Thursday afternoon, Feb ruary 5, at 4 o'clock. All members are urged to attend. Delightful Affair at the Kirkwood On last Saturday evening at the Kirkwood, Mr. Archie Forest of New York was host at a most delightful dinner party to which a number of the^jfOunger set were invited "to comfc a^d make merry." The table wasTtrtmicafty and*prettily decorated with carnations and sweet peas. Covers were laid for fourteen and an elaborate seven course pinner was served. Later the evening was spent in dancing. Those enjoying the occasion were Misses Dorothy Smith, Wilbur McCallum, Marjorie Hannah, Ernestine Bateman, Patterson Bol ton, Messrs. Roland Goodale, George Little, Buck Smith, Mortimer Boykin, Jack Watkins, Marion Williams and Mr. Rex Walden of New York. Mr. Forest is not a stranger in Camden having been a guest at the Kirkwood last winter, and he has made many friends during the time spent in Camden. <i * Womatui Exchange Tea Room Opened Monday afternoon marked the for mal opening of the tea room in con nection with the Woman's Exchange under the auspices of the Parish Aid Society of Grace church. The Parish House, nestled among the pines on Laurens street is convenient aryfl at tractive, and bids fair to be this winter what it has always been in the past, a popular resort for the many visitors who brighten Camden with their presence and also for our own people. The occasion Monday afternoon was a silver tea and art exhibit and was a success in every particular. The room was decorated in forest" greens, the dainty^ breath of spring and the sunny yellow of Scottish broom, that is seen so abundantly everywhere just now. The beautiful etchings ^nd paintings of Mr. Hutty held prominent places and are still on display. A table, beau tiful in its setting of silver and china fend having as a center decoration a vase in old blue filled with pink carnations and feathery ferns, was presided over by Mrs. H. G. Garri son, Sr., and Mrs. Wm. Shannon, who poured tea and coffee. Among the ladies receiving were Mrs. H. G. Car rison, Jr., Mrs. Ralph N. Shannon, Mrs. C. P. DuBose, Mrs. C. H. Yates, and Miss Leila Shannon The refresh ments served were dainty and invit ing and typically Southern. The ex change and tea room are under the efficient management^of Miss Ethel Yates and Mrs. Grover L. Black well and a cordial welcome is ex tended to all visitors. The engagement ring is worn by Germans and Scandinavian* on the third finder of the left hand during the efteifc*i?eftt, Aft* oH the rltfht hand after marriage. . %To M??t With Mr?. I'ructor The John I). Kennedy Chapter U. 1). C, will moot Monday, Fob. 2nd at 4 o'clock in the afternoon with Mrs, Francis Proctor. This is to be one of the important meetings of the year as the division calls that will place the chapter on the honor roll if responded to are to be ar ranged for. Those who did not pay annual dues in January will pleaBe remember to bring, or if that is not possible, send them to this meet ing. The division treasurer is urg. frig the chapter treasurer to get the books balanced in February, a month earlier than usual. Members please remember this; we gain nothing by putting these little matters off and we take up the time and make extra work for others, Let us be consid erate then and by our promptness lighten the duties of others who are giving their time, talent, and setv vice to a cause that we have all y,ol untarilyvespoused. The hostess ex tends a cordial invitation to all mem* bers and to any visiting members of the organization. Many at Community Market I .ast Saturday was a busy day at the Community Market. A number of country people who had been kept at homo for several Saturdays by the bad weather, and bad roads were there with enough sausage, eggs, and cakes to supply the demand. . It is hoped that the Camden peo ple will patronise this market ex tensively. Here they may buy the best country products fresh from the farms, and may come in personal contact with the people who produce them, thus securing an added inter est with each purchase however small. The market is held in the show rooms of the Kershaw Motor * Co., from 9:30 to 12 every Saturday morning. Favors A County Home Editor" Chronicle: The Wateree Messenger ftas a notice of a mass meeting to be held on Saturday at the Court House at 11 a. m. to dis cuss a petition sent in to the repre sentatives of this county asking, for a larger appropriation for the poor of this county and if feasible a county home, not a poor home, to be built in the town of Camden for the old and the sick who have no homes nor any one to care for them. The tax on this will not be great for any and when you think that this is not for public highways but for "The King's Highway" and for human souls, not human bodies only, I believe the taxpayers will be glad to give to a cause so just and so necessary. Do you know that the apprdpriattpn for the poor of this county is only from $1.25 to $2.00 a month apiece? What human being could live on so Small a sum? Can not we share our little with those who have- less ? Let us each realize that but for the grace of God any one of us may come to where there is no place to go and no one to care for us when we are old and ill. Which orte of us could live on $1.26 or $2.00 a month? "Where there is no vision the people perish." "One Deeply Interested." "FLAPPER GRANDMOTHER' To Be Given Tonight at School Audi torium by Local Talent Don't miss it Miss what? Why don't you know everybody's talking1 about "The Flapper Grandmother." which is to be given Friday nfght, Jan. 30 at 8 p. m. at the School Audi torium under auspices of the D. A. R. o Miss Helen-Roy Hosier of , tbo Wayne P. Jewell Lyceum and Produc ing Company, Atlanta, Ga., is direct ing the play and she is greatly pleas ed with the interest and enthusiasm the cast is showing. This is a delightful musicale com edy play. The cast is composed of over sixty. The lines are bright and sparkling. The music and steps are catchy. The costumes are most at tractive. Watch the chorus girls for pep, pep, pep! The dear little rag dolls, the dummy door knobs and the old fash ioned ladies and gallants lend just the right amount of charm and sweet ness. The irresistable jelly beans al most vamp "grandma" off her feet. Grandma is living with her daugh ter, Mrs. Spriggins, who is helping her husband, Andrew, run an out-of date country store in Blngville. Tiley are assisted by Lena, the wild child, and Belindy, the old fashioned girl. Grandma's filled with modern- idea?, and when she wins the money in the Teapot Oil Dome, her dream is real ized, and she and Belindy go to Paris to have their faces made over. Come Friday night and see what happens! Check all your troubles at the box office, 'cause it's a laugh from start to finish! Tickets will beon sale by the school children. Reserved seat tickets may be secured at Dr. Robin Zemp's Drug Store. Go there and pick out your seat. General admin sion may be exchanged at Dr. Robin Zemp't for referred seats. HAVE CVRlQUli WAfS OF DESCRIBING TIME Primitive People Sometime! Ufe Puzzling Expressions. ' The tli>t Ume > ?ui hegiu (o jiiierio gule a Ni \\ 11 ( ubuUt Hit? UlUC a llith.' .,i,i< UN !U lLlC II hi t"' \v ill pyBJslo jf\M bj| poinun- up into tllV Then un <>U} stager will It-li ynij that l^c is pultUlUg Ho lUv spot \vliUh llie ^UU would havi* readied had it bren day time---a gmid Ulvn, In a land where clocks. iuv uniiuagluud. "My: sun will be ' buvk in a (|nhi Chew." declares the Javanese, meaning livo miniUevihe time It takes to chew a quid *>i Mil ih. Alter Wtt.iilUtf 1?;111' all hour you return ami May, "It is Uu\v 'key,' cooking time (the time it hikes to Oook a 'kay' of rice), and he h noi here." .M?ri v,". says the native; 'he has sent u message ttiat ho cannot ho here until a 'gangtang' cooking tlnni" (the limo it takes to cook a "gangtang"1 of rice, about IK) minutes). "The lion cmue in lhe silence of the land," explains-the African Hftbwentfc ruce. meaning at midnight, An exasperating custom of the lllx niarck Islanders Is to tell you thai a thing happened us long ago as It takes to walk from some place you have never heard of to another place yuu have never heard oft In one village the standard expression for four hours was the time that It took a laine old woman to hobble hulf way to the other side of the Island. Thrit was as clear as any clock-reading to th? villagers, who had known the old lady for years?but It didn't help the stranger much! Some tropical races say, "That hap pened .KTst before the turning of the smoke." Along the coast a stiff wind suddenly blows In from the sea shortly before sunset. The natives of Madagascar have one of the Jolliest primitive time systems. Midnight they call Center of Night; 2 a. m. Is Frog-croaking; 5:15 a. m. is Glimmer of Day; 5:30 a. in. is Unlaisy People Awake; 0 a. m. is Sunrise; 0:1." a. m. is Cattle Go Out; 0:30 u. in. is Leaves Are Dry; 9 <1, nS. is Sun Over Eaves; 12 noon Is Sun Over Hoof Ilidge; 2 p. in. is Day Slips; and so it goes in detail until!) :30 p. in. which is Everyone in Bed. The Nandi, an African race, have a rather similar toll of hours, puzzling at first to the newcomer, but as clear to thomselves as any numbered hours to us. A Nandi afternoon runs thus: Noon, the Siyi lias Stood Upright ; 12:30 p. in., the Goats Have Drunk Water; 1 p.-in.,'the Sun Turns; 1 :30 p. in., the Drones Hum; 2 p. in., the Oxen Feed; 3 p. in., the Goats Have Drunk Water; 1 p. in., the O'xeu Are Watered a Second Time; .4:30 p. in., the Goftts Sleep; 5 p. in., Take Goats Home; 5:30 p.m., Goats Enter Kraal; 0 p. m.f Sun Finished; 0:15 p. in., Milk Gowrf1; 0:45 p. in., Can't See Man Nor Beast; 7 p. in., the Heavens Are Fas tened; 8 p. in., Porridge Is Finished; 9 p. m., Those Who Have Drunk Milk Ah> A?tfe#b! 10 p. the Huts Are Closed; 11 p. m., Those Who Sleep Early Wake Up; and 12 Is Night's Middle.?Manchester Guardlnn. Narrow Escape Karl Hoblltzeile, president of fhe Interstate Amusement rompnny, who Is id Houston for. n few days, tells of meeting a very absent-minded old man, who came to visit the Dallas Majes tic. He talked with Mr. Hoblltzelle for a while, find then after looking all over tjie theater, said he would Jour ney on. A minute later he returned, evident ly much worried. "I hare mislaid my hat. Has anyone.in this oftlce seen It?" he asked. "Why. it'u on your head," said Mr. Iloblltzelie, pointing. "Gracious," said the old man. "I nearly- went of!" without If."?Houston Post. Leading Question Mrs. Dean Bond, librarian of the Indinna State Normal school, lias a keen sense of humor. The other day she watched a young man hunting through the book stacks for a book. He was heard to ask another young man for the book for which he was hunting. It was called "Good Kaglith." He asked for it in this manner: "Hare you erer heard '(Jood Kng Hah?"' Mrs. Bond laughed. But she laughed stUl harder when the fellow came to her and asked: "Do yon know '(Jood English*?*'?Indianapolis News. [ More Corn Now It took 00 rows of corn to make a wagonload three years ago from a held on the farm of V". H. Priri? of Tipton county. Tenn. Hut for three years this farmer has been demonstrating soil building through crowing legumes, in co-operating with the county agricul tural agent, planting lespedeza and fol lowing with corn and soy beans. In 192.'i, according to reports to the I. nit ed State* Department of Agriculture, only 'Jit row * of corn from tlila held were needed to make a- wagonload. Pica by Machinery A newly patented mixing ma Mae tnrn?: out pies at the rate (if fifteen s mlni'te. - never touched by human hands." Afrer the fins ar?? lined with crust, trimmed and crimped on t!ie edg<-/?. they ure patscd aiou* iv r<vr ?olr.? containing different kind* of filler and automatically ?t<?pp**d to re ceive the kind of material desired. Then U>ey are pA*?fd along r* the rtren. TV* fnVhert if <.novrn M Sit ".4bfy er -ty __ SCUAl'S AND FACTS ? ? IntewHting Nute* (iuthered From Many Sources. ? jA:-? perfectly preserved grain of wht*at was found embedded in a piece of pottery used by a Sussex woman 2,000 years ago, It is on view in thy Municipal Museum at Brighton, Eng land. The popcorn stand is another Amer ican institution unknown in Europe. When Roman numerals were used, before the use of figures, all ealcula- j tion was done with the abacus. Seventeen states are represented among the members of the football, squad of the University of Pennsyl vania. A honey bee gives*off a scented trail when it finds a new source of supplies, that other bees may follow through the air. Chicago's horses decreased by ten per cent during 1923, and motor driven vehicle licenses increased near ly ten per cent. "The "Fly paper women" of Paris streets wear fly paper hats when they call their wares. - 1 The largest sheep station in the world is at Tierra del Fuego, the moat southern part of South America. One company shears more than 2,600,000 sheep every year. The Roya Society of England re ports a hen which laid eggs and hatched chickens but later in life gradually became a rooster. A valentine formerly meant a young lady bethrothed to a man on the first Sunday in Lent. The agree ment was annulled if he did not give her a present on the 14th of Febru ary. Sundays in winter as many as 60, 000 Germans pay ten cents each to walk on the ice at Muggle sea just outside of Berlin. , Football in England is first dis tinctly mentioned by William Fitz Stephen in his History of London, 1195. Webster's dictionary, first publish ed in 1828, was preceded over 900 years by a Latin dictionary compiled by Varro in 11G B. C. - England has developed more; im proved breeds of livestock than all the rest of the world together. . The guinea is really a wild game bird. In Africa, where there are still many wild flocks, they are highly prized by hunters. The exquisite painter Koltsu was often reproached by an industrious friend for his fits of idleness. At last he excused and explained himself by saying, "You are a watermill?a windmill can grihd only when the wind _ blows."-?Allen Upward in "Scented Leaves frdm a Chinese Jar." - - Rood Day is celebrated in Scot land in memory of the invention of the Cross. On this day branches of rowan are set above the doors of cow-houses and tied by scarlet thread round the tails of cattle to keep witches on the move. The actual voices of Florence Nightingale, Lord Tennyson, Queen Victoria and Gladstone are preserved by means of phonographic records now in the British Museum. Junior and Senior as applied to two senators from a state refer to length of service, or date of election, not to the age of the men. Gold is one and a half times heavier than lead. Fifty women have been added to the Buenos Aires police force, to pa trol the p?rks. Their uniform is a black straw hat and a navy blue dress. t The first bill introduced in the Pennsylvania senate at its current session provides for the sale of $50, 000,000 of state bonds for road pur poses. The Radio corporation of America is planning to build a $4,000 super radio plant near Manila, Philippine Islands. All efforts to pull the submarine S-19, which went aground off the Massachusetts coast Tuesday of last week, have failed. Leon Trotsky has been relieved of his duties as chairman of the revo lutionary war council of the Soviet COCK FIGHT NEAR CAMDRN A If u In We Have To (Jo Away From llumo To (Jet Thf Nt'ws "Kecently attended a chicken fight near Camden, the largest and beat rooster fight I have mm or heart! pi' in many a day," a friend of mine wh? was there told me. Jt was a rather peculiar one too, in that there wan lit* tie or no belting. Kock Hill chicken fnnpiers were fighting game chicken raisers of SVinnsboro and Columbia, and the Kock Hill crowd licked them, to a t'nr/./.h\ In fact tin* Bock HD) vtowd won ten out of the thirteeii fights, 1 believe it was; and the Winnsboro-Columbia crowd after looking tin.* Hock Hill birds over wouldn't risk their coin. Among those present were a number of doc tors and others. There wore \ about 100- or more people present for the show and the fellow in whose yard the fight was held churged the spec tators $5 a head for looking in. Ho had to have something for his trou ble. Everything, went off in apple pie order ?exceptr-ii would have been more interesting if there had been betting. Reafly, we had a right nice time and were not mo,Vested by any .body." The above is from the Yorkville Knquirer of last Tuesday. We learn by "grapevine" that it was held in the lower part of the county. The sports did not let us in on this fight and it was kept exceedingly quiet., ??"???? i '? ? V " ? 11 11 ?? government by the Central commit tee of the Communist party by a vote of 50 to 2. The dismissal of Trotsky is looked upon in London as an out standing incident In world politics. Raymond J. Bischoff, wanted in Chicago for swindling stockyarvl workers out of $4,000 to $7,000 three years ago, hns been arrested at Los Angeles, Cal. LUNCHEON AND BRIDGE ?AT THE? Studio Tea Room Tuesday and Friday Morn* irtgs^from 10:30 to 12:30 j $1.00 for each person For Table Reservations PHONE 13-J SPRINGDALE COUNTRY CLUB A Delightful Place to Dine in Veritable Beauty Spot Excellent meals served, cour teous service assured Lunches, Dinners And Bridge Parties Also Afternoon Teas 8 to 6 p. ra., 18-hole Golf Course Public Links F. P. Farren, Manager EXCUSE ME PLEASE! It's Sunday, you know, and I must 'hurry over to Wateree Baptist Church (Wateree Mill Village) Preaching Every Sui&day 11 a. xn. and 7 p. m. J, B. Shiver,'Pastor Phone 65-W ' Sunday School at 10 a. m. J. E. Robinson, Supt* "We are journeying: unto the place of which the Lord said, I will ghre it to you: come thou with ua, and we will do thee good."?Numbers 10:29. DR. A. W. HUMPHRIES Office at DeKalb Pharmacy Telephone 95 A BEAUTIFUL LINE OF VALENTINES * NOW ON DISPLAY A fresh consignment of garden peas and beans, white and red onion sets. Also white multipliers. A com plete assortment of garden and flower seed. % ZEMP 6c DePASS DRUGGISTS PHONE fO " -