The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, December 04, 1925, Image 4
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A JKAI.O! S I ISH K K.MAN
( IJy (\ A. David)
This big-homled bird looks some
thing like an ovor-nrown h!uo-ja\\
as the clothes ho wt-nr.i are b'ue, black
and white. When h" gets excited, and
ho is that way most of tho timo, he
raises (ho long, loo.se feathers on hisl
hoad until they stand up like tho J
things kings tiiod to wear? -crowin, I
I think they called thorn. Maybe thai,
is h:>v- he K"' "tine of Kingfisher;
')- maybe I*., u >? ? the be ;t '
fisher i !' tK-m 'he 'Kingfisher,!
anyhow ?-\nyV > >, i - im j: Kry-J
fisher. '
ifo is certainly a finhcr. all right,
and unlike his human competitor, ho
i does nut have to sit down and wait
for the fish to bit*.-, hut when he sees
a fish, hi' plunges in and does the
biting himself.
Somehow he has Rotten it into his
*
j head, that all that part of the stream
that he patroN, is his individual prop
el ty, as if h?- had bought and paid
for it, and a-? far a$ in him lies, he
is not going to let any Tom, Dick and
Harry do any fishing- there. If the
in' ruder happens to be a crane, a
'coon or a didaper, he sails in and
makes things so lively for them that
T H K S OUTH K R N S H R V I: S I' H fc SOUTH
What every
business man knows
Every business man knows the danger
of using too much borrowed capital in
financing the growth of a business.
Rut the promise of the ultimate success
of an undertaking often justifies the ac
cumulation of debt against the day when
established earning power will attract
new partnership capital.
Such has been the record of the Southern
Railway Company. For thirty years it
has been compelled to finance itself by
borrowing and the reinvestment of
earnings.
But the Southern should now take its
rightful place among the enterprises of
the South whose solid worth merits the
confidence of investors and attracts
partners rather than creditors.
SOUTHERN RAT I. WAY SYSTEM
fishing iy o?t of the question. If it
is a man or boy he will light on the
nearest snag, and give them a piece
of his mind; and his languageMa posi
tively insulting. Between rattles, ho
will toll him just what he thinks of
a person who tries to steal hi* fish,
right' before- his eyes; and he, gives
the intruder to understand if he were
only nearer his site, he would pick
him up by the scruff of the neck and
tho slack of his pants and pitch him
in the deepest holt- In the river! But
if the fisherman pays no attention to
his ravings, he will gradually quiet
down, and go to fishing himself.
When he settles down to the day's
work of fishing, he takes a position
on a limb over the water, ai^l gazes
intently down in the water, cocking
his head from side to side in the most
knowing manner. All at. once he
drops from his perch- and hits the
water with a splash, and for an in - j
stant disappears from sight. VVhe.i
he comes up it is generally with t
fish cross-ways in his bill. Flapping
slowly to h i *' F a ly i > r i u* r v a t n g place, he
prepares for tfie great adventure of
getting that fisk safely down his
throat. The first thing ho does is to
give it an upward toss and catch it
! by the head when it comes down. By
that time the fish's troubles arc about
oyer, but the bird's are just beginning.
If the catch is a small one, it dis
appears at a single gulp, but If it is
a big one with spiny fins, it is some
thing else.
He gags and sputters, while his
body is shaken by spasmodic quivers,
as he tries to get the fjsh down a
throat that is several sizes too small.
By a mighty effort ho finally man
ages to get it partly down, only to
bring it up again for a fresh start.
It is only after the funniest contor
tions-, and the most ridiculous twist
ings that he does get it down, and
the throat assumes its normal size;
and then an expression of ineffable
relief spreads over his countenance.
I But no matter, how many times he
has choked over a big fish, ho never
seems to learn that little ones are
easier managed, and that it does not
pay to be too greedy.
What a king-fisher does not know
about the streams that he haunta> is
hardly worth knowing. He knows
every swirling eddy where the bass
feed; every rock ledge where the cat
fish hide; the sunny shallows where
silver sides play, and every lily-pad
where the perch loaf. There is no
guesswork about his fishing ? he
knows exactly where they are, and
where they are not, and he has got
his fishing down to a dead certainty,
and ho gets his fish whether they arc
biting or not.
The voice of most birds takes on a
softer tone during the courting season
but if anything the kingfisher's gets
harsher and louder.
There are n& low whisperings when
he tells his love, but he yells it out
at the top of his voice, and he and
his sweetheart have no secrets, that
everything in hearing does not know.
When the mated pair are ready for
the nest, they tunnel out a round hole
in the river bank, six or eight feet
deep, and at the end of the tunnel
they dig out a little room, and there
the eggs are laid, and the babies
raised. They do not pretend to make
a nest, but they pile up a lot of sticky
fish bones, and that is the only bed
the children have.
Mr. Hatfield Dead
Mr. B. S. Hatfield died at his home
on the Green Swamp road Saturday
night, aged 57 years, after a pro
tracted illness. The funeral services,
co:?ducted by Rev. E. W. Reynolds,
pastor of Salem Baptist church, were
held at the Sumter cemetery at four
o'clock Sunday afteronon. The de
ceased was a member of Hollywood
Camp W. O. W.
Charlotte Thompson Honor Roll
Grade 1 ? Bertha Trininal, Doris
Workman, Charles Smith, Shell West.
Grade 2 ? Marietta Thompson,
Lueile Deas, Emily Ives, Roy kin San
ders. Margaret Gaskins.
Grade 3 ? Ernest Kunda, Sam Roy
i kin, Stuart Clarkson.
I Grade I ? Pollye West, Kduard Mc
J Caskill.
Grade ?r>? Houze Evans, William
! Houze, Elizabeth Gillis, Mary Lindsay
, Pearce, James Shiver.
Gradr 6 ? James Seagle. Marion
: Shiver.
I Seventh Grade ? Needham Pittman,
Blandin^ Clarkson, Elizabeth Work
' man. Prances Dennis.
Grade R ? Maureen Sowell, Henri
j ctta Irby, Swannie Kinney, B<?tty
Scarborough, B?ib Clarkson.
! Grade D ? Eva Irby, Thelma Pearce,
| Sidney Dennis, Ima Hatfield,
i Grade 10 ? Virginia Owens,
j Grade 11 ? Ellen Roykin, Laurie
! Workman. Allan Norris, Ix?nora
i
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Lincoln's press agent, Robert J.
Walker, who rode a balloon across
England in 1863 scattering propagan
da for raising Civil War loan*, died
a pcor man.
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