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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE II. i>. Nile* . . Kditor and Publisher Published every Friday at No. 1109 Broad Street and entered a,t the Cam den, South Carolina, posfcoffice as second dais mail matter, Price per annum 92.00. * Camden, 8. Friday, Aug. 21, 1925 lk7RN~ DKAU BKAT8. ?Every person who has conducted n business in which the extending of credit U practiced must be impressed with t.ho large percentage of people in the world who appear to be born <ioad-bcuts. There are those in every community who make pretensions to business and social standing, yet were never known to pay a bill when it whs due and seldom pay one at all excepting as a result of hounding or legal ac tion. Morally, there is no difference be tween one who fails to pay an honest debt when he can pay it, and one who robs a till or cracks a safe. In fact, if there be any decency in either it appears to be on the side of the com mon criminal, who at least does aet abuse confidence and friendship. Credit bureaus are gradually mak ing the path of the dead-beat a litle more thorny, but he still flourishes to an extent that is a serious handicap to honest citizens. ? Laurens Adver tiser. ? Getting time for Camden business men to adopt a c rod It association aim ilur to the one in Chester. There are many born dead-beats in this com munity and will continue to exist a* ^ long as merchants fail to* deal fair with each other and put each other wise. We have known of instances utowe new store* hare opened and in stead of the old merchants puting their new competitors wise, they let the dead-beats go on and fleece them, thereby giving said dead-beats a larger lease on a community. We are glad to say, however, they can't last always, for they eventually got to the point where they cannot obtain credit and move on t<> new fields. Several have played out in Camden in recent years and have had to leave the city, but nut until they had lived here a iong time without paying anybody. The merchants' have to absorb this loss in some way and it is passed on to the honest ones who pay their ac counts regularly. Remember when you semi that next order of printing out of town you are crippling an industry in Caipden that is n?>t only turning loose quite a nice weekly pay roll, but is bringing for eign money into Camden through its foreign advertising patronage. All of this money is spent in Camden with Camden merchants, paying Cam den and Kershaw county taxes. The. Chronicle does high-class printing at a reasonable price and not like the mail order printois we ate here cver> dny in the yertr to make good any work not satislactoi y. W i- want you to at ieant give us a chance to meet the out-of-town man's bid. We can -?ave expies- charge- and in nearly ? instance uiil gvt you better ail round service. When ;.'oii send your an i ue v out < i i"\\ 11 for jn .nting it i* y. iif ior good. If you give us- a chance ? in the job. you will have a chance of . . i> that money back s'om da;,. I v -an unt a r ioir.t>;ti':-en I. ? ??if -\-r. . o ; Mom VVa-sh. actor. '< ?' ? ? \ i f. 1 1 in \ aiue>. ? oinna r ,t;g t he ;o, I ? \ da . \ ;? ji of farm I'l l", wit ? i ? :;a ? 1 li \ ?? > < i ? - a^"- ll j v ? > na ' ic. ; ? in os a hi a v > ' ? ? i ' ? 1 e I' l v ? vc.'ir- ago ?* a ? m and . . . I ??%??:? Sou: h ('ai<ii:a ^"id 'or m;m- ' . . ? : i \ t qua ? t < in ir. of ? < i 1 ? -tati The ? otiat ? ? ! ! h. - < ,t:v: '. ? . - .una ,o i.i !> ? i ra b'o -v ? *> ? . 1 ? a - > ; > u ! ? .| t i i ? t ill ; -a i at . \ e i'u J f but i f 'he c ei nincn! ma '.e* ?. nio'v a> < nia'.i c - 1 i i n a t a - oi lai m v a lie- than t did on takir.'-T tne :?>? ? t n>u- iu> i iod V 1 1 I.. he til I ? l. ? -e ? Uv > . ! ' i ? ha i*m v. ? 1 ' n si'' \ ? ?- n l>o have r.ot -'?< m "U \s - urn ; itm rem.it k w ith ica. ?? ? .i a m ? ha: - 1 1 ice the pav ing ha ? v: '"iM'ii ii * h'* town .uok^ dres> d in T'.h ii i -n't anj doubt aboui ? r.t 'ru'.h hat the- paving ?n.ik' - :!!'? ? ii t l'ert nee atid means a r?.i'. . 1 1 ii | > r venient than any of u -.'.-? i u t ? 1 have thought possible. There - ar...;'c.r t nr,.- idc rat ion which l* very n\|?or: .?n: -that i.f comfort. With un ; >.? v i * .- 1 ? ? t the duM wouM have ? ? ' : !V f du ! rt >.'< t '? ? <: ! .? ?? of - Jill ID'- . ' '? a., i i : \ o c 1 i e r ' \ ; >i ? u i ? ? . ' ? ; i . ? i i ' 1 ? i ? i - ? ? w : . "d ? . " . ' . :?? - ^h" ; o . ? No Hit*. No Kun>> K ?* ky Mount N. Aul I.. Bartlett "Tex" Nl. Mriar, li.?eky Mount hur'.er, p.tclvd the f.rst no run, no hit game in t-h? Virgin;-, league this season, when the locals de feated the league-leading Ports mouth ctab here thia ?fterno<)n by a c acorc of 4 to 0. Only 30 men faced ' McMfNfcn. fk' i^ued two banes on h*Us and two Portsmouth players "Ttxdhrf- f rrt b#*e errors. DROCOff PECULIAR THIS YKAR Orought of Forty Venn Ago R* culled and ('old Winter Predicted. ' 1 - 1 (W? I*. fiouat-al in Columbia State.) The -? dru4i|fht whiph has prevailed in the Palmetto State this year has nhown some characteristics peculiar to it si' 11". Unlike the extreme drought of 1845 and 1 88 1 ? two of the driest Hummers within 80 years ? the thought this year did not prevail during the spring and .summer over the entire state. This condition was due to the fact that moisture usually brought by air currents from the Gulf of Mexico and distributed over the Southeastern states were dimln ished in force in this particular by the hot winds that came out of Texas and sapped them of their life. The extreme drought in Texas can be traced to the periodical source which lies in the influence of sun spots and further in this connection equally to planetary origin. While official records show that July was the driest seventh month of any year since 1882, it can noncom pete in this respect with July, 1881, when ?>ot a drop of rain fell during that entire month. The year was the driest (as hus been said) of any year since 18 I."*, when it did not rain at all from March until September. Condi tions of t ho drought of 1845 as des cribed by persons who lived at thai time have come down to the writer from such Arst hand sources. Clouds were plenty, but they flew high and did not form the nimbus (rain cloud) which only can give, precipitation. The three functionary clouds? cirrus stratus and cumulus ? were absent,! without, which there can be no nim bus, the latter being the rain cloud. Conditions of weather in 1881 must have been similar to those of 18ir?. Clouds floated about from dif ferent directions during the entire summer but their precipitation ?con stant function of all clouds ? did not reach terra firm a. The beginning of the dry period of ltSHl was April 21. That morning a cold mi sly rain occurred but by 11 o'clock the mist cleared away and the sun appeared in all its splendor. Al ihoiigh spring had far advanced, there was not a sprig of green any where. However, so suddenly had the temporatuie of summer come that within Ave day.* the trees had burst forth in buds and three days later they were in full leaf. It was a year without the appearance of spcing. iN'o ram fell then until June 2(?th? very slight at that. The next rail) was about the third Sunday in Au gust?a downpour ? the last of th* entire summer as it was November ?'!, when the fall rains set in and pre cipitation began to be abundant. Pre cipitation throughout six months from May to November did not amount to more than four inches. It wa-i thus drier than 1886. the year that some one has described as a droughty year. Such was not the case. One of the most destructive froahcU on Droad and Saluda rivers nci-iirrcd in Is, sr., when rain began t? tall in torrents May l<> and continued until .ltin? I0 at least lh or 20 inehc - falling duiing :i0 day.-, liain i: ^ a^ain the last week in June it w i?h. (I i >u t the Southern railway hi - I turn: Columbia and Alston twice j within U) da) >. However, a drought !*???! !"ivai! from the middle of July U!>' \oV( luher, having had elfec' - "'?III o ' t lie M'a 'd : JIJJ conditio!. ' wa- producen l>> the exccsMVt j ' : ? ? ' M i > ;? rd .I u , w h ich ?ud j ? v < < .t -oil i ' I . I If ! 1 1 ( I) . ? \ ( ,i ' I I ' J ? > I i : l \ ; 1 1 j ??'*? o : I he -:att li.i- In-en 1 ' ? b\ j*. t !?!{;?'.: ii n w h :? t. or i gi - i' i < > : :i t In i ? e g ? o ? i ( ; f1(. ( , lv.,t I ? ' I i ? ^ l.ict v. a ? the ha - : y f the !oiira>t inaiic by the Hutch Weather '"??phe! >) .J u I > that the tstouuh' would he broken in the and r ' " ' - throughout the -tate. So the i . t - which h.tce occurred -ince that ? ' i ^ e:?t?*d .it tl? <'Hinr of the N! 1 ' vi-.-. The Gu.f and the M?nar I i\ have a \e y -ympathctic r atio*.. iking nu-ti orv. ogieally, .i' (i who! ..n? ta;.j to iuppl\ precipi *?>' ti.i form of rain, the other u alnio-* nvr.riably come to the f ? - 1 i . ? II vt r, the region < , f { h,< c ? I aKe> i:>u:i ,\ the .-ouue of v. n!i r r;i : - h . in ?*ummer nearly a , /?? . p * i ' . i i . Iotv area- from the (-M-! I'm- p fat :oi. or:gii.at;r.g .-?> ? arlv j tne -ummer t.hi* year in the i' Lake- region ha- blazed the ua\ a . ?!.<, r r than Ix^i i > ? I A ? .i -uru'w.r, George flgton [?i:agg?*d his ehain aior.i; the surface ? f rh?- gi\?und, up ar.d <iown hill*, without making any a!low\ancc in hi,? calculation^ for the hilts. Conse quently, motlern sjrveyors are hav i-'iu; trouble ohe? kitvg up his oid *ur nVw in what is now Maryland. "Srxt*i lyimit Thnoujfh Nazareth 10 Miles p?rr Hotir." So r?Nad? ? oisrn <tn M?ry V W?4J fcuuawth.. . THIS WEEK If ArtW Brwkw Mr. Brisbane's editorial* are pub lished as expressions of opinions of the world's highest^saforied editor and The Chronicle doe* not necessarily endorse all of his views and conclusions. Sov??n crops of alfalfa in a year, tons of potatoes to an acre, great are the wonder crops of this rich land. But the greatest crop is the human crop. Without that, others would amount to nothing. Mr. Jones's Star, of Rigby, Idaho, tells of a family gathering of the Call family. It included Anson V. Call, 70 years old, of Afton, Wyoming, father of 20 sons and 10 daughters, all alive, healthy and strong. Mr. Call Is the grandfather of 90 children, and they are nil well. Tell that to your friend who thinks birth control will solve our problems. Where ignorance, disease, poverty and drink, in. the slums, combine to force large families upon weak wo men that cannot take care of thorn, birth control may be all that its ad vocates say. Thoy don't need it in Idaho or Wy oming. What they ? need there is children. Dancing and religion have long been united. Samuel teWs you "David danced before the Lord." He well might, for his rise was rapid from lightweight champion, conqueror of Goliath, to ruler over Israel. Dancing has its proper place, see Ecclcsiastes, -third chapter, fourth verse, "time to weep, and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance." The next verse says there is also "a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing." That ?hou!d be remembered in these wild dancing days. When you get a piece of this earth, keep it. It cannot be stolen; doesn't rust; you are your own board of di rectors; unlike watered stocks, there is only just so much of it, and it goes u pin price. The Indians sold Manhattan Iesand for $24. The land in Central Park alone is now worth a thousand mil lions. *" Mr. Hatch got 000 acres at Far Iiockaway, New York, under fore closure* for $40,000, tried to get rid of it but jcouldn't on account of liti gation. When he did sell he got $3, 000,000. At today's boom prices, if his son had it, <it would be worth $7(52.000,000. Keep your real estate. In Indianapolis, punishment is to lit the crime, when one man with his automobile kills another. The killer is to spend one hour locked in a room with the corpse of the person killed. The theory is that it will make the killer think, although it won't bring the dead back to life. "Voltaire had the idea reversed. In "Zadig" a traveling philosopher causes the young widows of India to discontinue burning themselves alive with the corpses of their own hus bands. He didn't forbid it, only made a law that before being burned alive the young widow should pass a couple of hours with the handsomest young man in the village. After that for some strange reason ; the widow usually lo.-t interest in be I ing burned up with her aged spouse. Often she disappeared before tht1 fun 1 eral. What a nuisance the human body is. Through life it worries with aches and pains and needs. The spirit is so | easily taken care of. It has no rheu matism, no teeth to ache, no gout, no hair to fall out, needs no clothing, eat - nothing, supplies what little real happiness we have. And we soon learn to suppress that part of it call ed "conscience." Even when you are dead, the spirit take^ care of itself, goes off some where ar.d the body remains a nui sance. The simplest thing is to burr\J it up. instead of leaving the work of destruction to slow worms, but many <io not like that cremation idea. Death and what we call its "horror" ought to be most useful. Every time k man thinks of death be should say to himself, "merciful Heaven! I had better stop thinking and get out and do something worth while, for I shall >oon be gone, and they will be asking, 'what shall we do with the remain-?' and 'what did he amount to?' " Bo> Scout News The Mo\ Scout > ?>f Troop No. I | he'd their titular mating on Friday : r.itrhf :i tht Sc. ui h<-u?e. Th? mot*? j i i . v. ,i - i.p? p< <1 h\ th^ Prayer j and tl.< due* v. i re collect* ? I . During the nir.-tinjr the advancement record was checked tip. -howir.fr hou much each s c out had advanci J during our cant*'. The principa part ? ? f the meet.njr wak a ta k h\ Kag!?* Scout Goudin Kershaw of Augusta, (?a., on what scouting ha? meant to him. Thi* talk was enjoyed very much by our ftcouts. At this meeting the Ragle patrol presented a new form of initia tion and we hope it will ho adopted. John Richardson, Scrtt*. CAROLINA OFFICER KILLED. (.ieul. Wiiwlon J, Kaddy, of H?m*| minRway, Lone? Life. Hemingway* Aug. 16. ? Q, B, Eaddy ' received Friduy, August 13th, the startling intelligence that his -on, Lieut. Winston J. Eaddy, stationed ut Camp Clark, Texas, was killed at D a. m. of that day. Death, which was instantaneous, was duo to un avoidable accident, his horse. falling: on him while drilling. Liout. Bradley of the dead ofllcer's command, the Fifth cavalry, is now en route with the body. The funeral will take place on their arrival, Which will probably be Tuesday, August 18. Lieutenant Eaddy was a fino spec imen of young manhod, the pride of his parents and sisters, and one of whom the whole community was proud. As a student of Hemingway high school, ho led his class, after at tending the Citadel one year, where ho was adjudged the bent in deport ment in his class, he received the West Point .appointment. . In 1928, at the age of 22 he was graduated -and, was assigned to duty on the Mexican border. Two Killed at Columbia. Columbia, August H.? An effort to stop a touring car at* the Pinckney street railroad crossing (just off west Elmwood avenue) proved futile at 1:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon and John Adams, 1531 Lincoln street, and Mrs. Marie Butler, Kansas City, Mo., met death when passenger train No. 53 of the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens railroad plunged into the machine in which they were riding. Tally Eisenhauer and John Kim brell, both of Columbia, also received injuries in the wreck. They are now in the Columbia hospital. Eisenhauer is suffering from a. badly lacerated hand and bodily hurts. Kimbrell has severe lacerations about the face and hands. Neither of the two young men is thought to be in a serious condition. STUDENTS ENTERING the Atlanta-Soutihern Dental College in October should matriculate at once. This is the Last year it \yill be possi ble to enter a dental college with only high school education, and in creased enrollment must be provided for in the new building now under construction. ? Adv. 21 pd Wants? For Sale : ? * ' FOB SALE? Pedigreed Collie pupa, nine weeks okL Already wormed. Males 116.00; Females $10.00 Reg istratlon papers A. K. C. $2.00 ex tra. Pure-bred Collies 37.60 and $10.00. Mrs, R. V<. Rembert, Rom berg S. 21 -pd FOR J0USNT ? Furnished rooms, near J .school and Main 'street. Apply to 1214 Fair street, ' 21-23pd FOR HALE ? Two good milch cows at a bargain. Address R. S. Trues, j dale, Westville, S. C. 21-22pd FOR RENT ? New 5 -room .house with bath, on W. Hampton Avenue. Ai* ply to Mrs. A. G. Hug-gins, P. O. Box 826. 20tiif WANTED ? Am offering $2.50 to haul and put on train pulp wood by the: cord. Haul three miles. Dr. S. F. Brasington, Camden, S. C. lOtfj FOR SALE ? Honey in comb 1& cents per pound, in five pound lots. I Bring container. Address Mrs. William D. Trantham, Chesnut StwfcM, Camden, S. C. ? 19pd FOR SALB? ^Several good stock bird puppies six Weeks old and will be ready for fall training. Apply to L. M. Truesdale, rte 1, Westville, S. C. 19-18-pd LOST ? One pair tortoise shell glasses in soft leather case. Reward if returned to Chronicle office. 18-pd POULTRY AND EGGS WANTED? Any quantity any time. Don't write. Ship us your poultry and eggs, hens 19c, fryers 26c, roos ters 7c, eggs 83c, delivered at Clin ton. Clinton Produce Co., Clinton. S. C. Cash by return mail. 18-tr FOR RENT ? Three connecting rooms unfurnished. Telephone 262-J, Cam den, S. C. J7-18-19-pd WANTED? No. 1 pine logs. Highest cash prices paid; year round der mand. Sumter Planing Mills and Lumber Co., Attention E. S. Booth, Sumter, S. C. >. 29-tf ! BATTERIES? If it's a battery you need see us before you buy, our prices are right. Batteries recharg ed and repaired. Broad Street Fill ing Station, Phone 443, U. N. Myers, Prop. 15-sbj WHITTON GENUINE PARTS Ca, Columbia, S. C., The largest Parts Distributors in the entire South. A complete stock of genuine and replacement parts for all cars and trucks. aug. 7-sb FORD SERVICE? We handle genu ine Ford parts. Let us do your repair work. Experienced Ford me chanics. Mr. Joe Pettigrew in charge of repair shop. Broad Street Filling Station, Phone 443, U. N. Myers, Prop. "-lS-sb FOR RENT ? Two houses on Broad street. Apply to L. A. Wittkowsky, Camden, S. C. 60 sb CITATION Stat* of South OaroHna, CoUHty of Ktvivhaw. By W. L. McDowell, Kisq., Judge. . ^ , Whereas, Pauline Gary mad*} suit to me to grant her Letters of Ad ministration of the Eaitate of and effect* of Joseph Brooks. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kin dred and creditors of tne said Joseph Brooks, deceased, that they be and appear before meif in the Court of probate, to be held at Camden, South Carolina on Monday, August 8Ht, next after publication thereof, at U o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be grant ed. Given under my hand, this 10th day of August, Anno Domini 1925. w. l. Mcdowell, Judge of Probate for Kenahaw County Published on the 14th and 21st days of Augusit, 1925, in the Camden Chronicle and posted at the pourt House door for the time prescribed by law. < CITATION State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. By W. L. McDowell, Esq., Prortwt* Judge. Whereas, L. A. Kirkland made suit to me to grant him Letters of Admin istration of the Estate of and ef fects of Lula B. Croft These ere, therefore, to cite and admonish ail and singular the kin dred and creditors of the said Lula B. Croft, deceased, -that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Camden, South Carolina on Saturday, August 22nd, next after publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they ha^re, why the aaid Ad ministration should not be granted. Given under my hand, this 7th day of August, Anno Domini 1925. w. L. Mcdowell, Judge of Probate for Kershaw County Published on the 14th and 21st days of August, 1925, in the Camden Chronicle and posrtied at the Court House door for the time prescribed by law. WHY WAIT until winter to arrange for your milk sup ply when milk is scarce9 Give us a trial now or ask some of our customers. Quality and service is our motto. Call Lee's Market and ask for our driver to call. ' Milk, cream, fresh eggs and poultry at the mar ket. Lugoff Dairy, LugofT. S. C. 20-32pd FOR SALE ? Lot best quality red six inch floor tile. See N. C. Arnett, Camden, S. C. 21-<sb Living To One's Self Ft is written ''No man liveth unto him self." It is just as true that no institution, cor poration or business can permanently prosper that is utterly selfish. We real ize that we can prosper only as we are of service and real helpfulness to the inter ests of the community. The First National Bank *? " ? ?? * .