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FONT! AC BOY KlIXKD. Struck by AaUmoWk ?a Camden Columbia Highway I m Arm) Cook, eigbtyear-old son of ! Sam Cook, Pootiac planter, was fatal ' ly*injured early last night, apparently by an automobile, since wax found at the aide of the^'olUmbia-Camden road near Poritiac in a serious con dition. He died a few minutes later. Report of the accident waa made to W. H. Thompson, deputy sheriff in tbc^yffk^ of Sheriff T. Alex ffeise, by G. T. Jacobs, storekeeper at Pon tile. Just how the accident occurred wa* not known, Mr. Jacobs reported. Shattered glass, thought to be from a light of an automobile, was found near the ^oint of the: tragedy. A touring csir , carrying a party of negroes was found in the ditch not far tropi the scene but no definite connection had been established, Mr. Thompson said.? Monday'a Columbia i State. v V : j < Frr/m Tnwrfiy'l) Stair. ) Tbr?e young white men of Heath Springy ? C. C, Orimminger, Tom Mag:ll and C, C. M&yuard-? came to Columbia late last night in answer to a aummons from Sheriff T. Alex Heiso regarding The fatal accident that caused the death of Ansel "Cook, eight year old son of Ham Co ok, who was struck apparently by an automobile Sunday night on th?? Camden road, near I'ontiac. Investigations yesterday traccd the number of the machine .supposed t^> have been the one that struck the child, and Mr. Maynard, the owner of the car, promised to come to the Cap ital City. It developed upon the arri val of Mr. Maynard and the two young men that Mr. Crimminger had boon driving the automobile Sunday night ami that he had been accom panied by Mr. Magill and Porter Wil liams, another Heath Springs man. They were on their way to Columbia to meet a train on which Mr. May nard was traveling and were to take him back to his home. At a point near Hlaney the automobile driven by " Mr. Crimminger was forced to the edge of the road by another machine and the car slid into a flitch. The occupants alighted and in ten min utes' time were on" their way to Co lumbia. Mr. Crimminger f /i ???! he was going at a rate of about liO miles per hour when he came to thu place where the Cook rhild was fatally injured. He said that the mud had got on his windshield and a mint was falling. He declared that he moved his car a little from the center of the road, and that he heard a lick on the automo bile. He said that it sounded like Rome one had slapped his hand on the fender. The Heath Spring# man told the Richland county officers that he turn ed to one of the occupants of the machine, .saving, "That sounded like we struck something." He checked up his speed, ho said. One of the young men looked back, but declared that he saw nothing in the road. The travelers continued on their journey. Mr. Crimminger said he alighted from his machine at a filling station near Columbia, and as was his custom, declared he got out to look at his lights before* entering the city. He four...' a broker, light and also noticed ?ha' 'h< fender <?f his i car was l>ent. Mr. Crimminge- -aid n>- continued on to Columbia and escorted Mr. May nard bark U? Heath Springs. He knew nothing of the a> c:d? nt. h?> *aid, until yesterday morning. The Heath Spiingo mar: appeared! very much perturbed last night. The fender u f the Mayrard cai, ac rording to t he officers, making the examination, looked as if the < hi'd had left the imprint of its bod v. i ounp .Mechanic Held. ( u.unsbia. De.\ 'J'J. ? Charged with "criminal careicfi-neas" in driving an automobile, ( Crimmsnge' . young aut<>mobiI<- mechanic of Heath Spring/'. h<ld by a coroner's jury today to I*' responsible for the death f An^el Cook, eight year old boy of I'm hland county, who ua- -,truek by ? y?r automobile Sunday r. :ght. f'rim m.nger wa? released in $2,000 b.r.d to await tr;a! for Involuntary man- j "?lau jr.ter. Th<- b.iy died* Sunday i night after he was found ly- j ng by 'he roadside, Crimminger ad- ; mitten, effu?-rs ja:d, that he heard a ou :d a ? : f the au' -mobile had struck ?ometh:r.g, but he could not see well < n account of mud and mist on hi.? windithield, and one of his compan .ons, aft' r looking back, told him there was no sigr. of anyone being nit. 11? drove to Columbia with out fir.lhcr investigation. Boan- Hammond*. M.. II. I>. Hammonds, of Raleigh, N C . and Miss Li Hie Mao Roan, of <"r, rr.(ji.n, were married in Can* !?r ->n Monday, December 21st, Judge of Probate W. L. McDowell performing r,\sr Al.TIKS OK THK ROAD. Thirty-Nine Kifled n^d 227 Injured in South During Pa*t Week. | Atlanta, Dec. Thirty-nine per j aon# sacrificed their lives during the past week on the altar of the traffic god and 227 others suffered varying degrees of injuries. Home of those are expected to die. These figure* were revealed today in a survey of traffic accident* by the Associated { Pre** in eleven Southern states. ^ North Carolina, with seven deatha, j led the galaxy of atatea, while Flor idaand Mi?*i??ippi reported two each as the lowest numbers. Georgia again took th* crown tor the higheat number of injured with forty-nine. This waa"*ohe less than was reported through the same chan nels last week. Virginia was a close follower with forty-four. Florida re ported none having been injured. There were I outstanding acci dents during the week, the toll aa taken by scattering accidents. j South Carolina reported threcdead [and four injured. JURY ACQUITS MAN But Mob Taken Him From Sheriff and Putn Him to Death ? Clarkadale, Miss., Dec. Lindse'y Coleman, negro, was lynched here to night a few minutes after a jury in circuit court had declared hira not i guilty of the murder of Grover C. Nicholas, plantation store manager. Coleman was one of several negroes arrested after the slaying of Nicholas, [October 1 f>, by a man who knocked' the storekeeper in the head with an axe. His trial has been in progress throughout this week. Coleman left the Coahoma couri house immediately after the . verdict, accompanied by Sheriff Glass and a deputy who feared violence. They had gone but a short distance when a group of men unmasked, ap proached and seized the negro, over powering the officers. ' Leaping into an automobile with the negro, the men drove away. A few *hoU wer? heard and Coleman's body, pierced- by several bullets, was thrown into the street near the out skirts of th?' city. "And I Don't Mean Maybe." Did you over hear a minister uso a slang phrase as a text? We did the other night over the radio. "And I don't mean maybe." That was the unbroken and outstanding thread which ran through the entire dis course. "And I don't mean maybe." Christ this and. Christ that, "and I don't mean maybe." Paul this and Paul that, "and I don't mean maybe."- The church this and the church that, "and I don't moaq maybe." Every point was driven home with it. Every ar gument was topped with it. Every climax was capped with it. ? "and 1 don't mean maybe." The vaccination took. Before that minister was 15 minutes into his ser mon radio listeners all over the Uni ted States and Canada were saying to each other, "And I don't i?ean may- . bo." Hundreds of thousands of poo- . pie got that expression, and that only, and got that thought and that only, out (>f that dissertation that Sunday And if that were the purpose of the homily ? all right. The effect would have been heightened if the or ganist had played, "Yes, sir, that's my baby. No, sir. don't mean maybe a-, a recessional. The unconventional line of road in ihe pulpit always makes people sit up and take notice. Sometimes it make* them sit up and take notice of I the idea which the unhabitual proce- ! dure would stress, and sometimes it makes them take notice only of the unhabitual procedure itself. Some prc.achers have the gift of being able ; to take all sorts of slang and idiom atic artistries and colloquial mon strosities and use them as handles to : I drive home poignant truths. Hilly ' Sunday :s a man like that, and Sam ' Jones was another. Hut that sort of i vehicle for conveying the word of God, n'-ods a >> k : 1 f u 1 driver or the load will j bo lo>t by the road, while only the rig Hots home. We recall "-nee visiting a certain J ihurch just after a Hilly Sunday re- | v.val in that city. The m r.ister was i an extremely sedate and dignified 1 man. He didn't know how to be hu -i morous; it wasn't natural to him. The choir leader was the same kind ' of chap. But, evidently it had been decided that the Billy Sunday methods should be introduced into the church in order to keep the dry bones rat tling. And so the preacher, who was ponderous physically, and ponderous mentally, tried to skip around in his pulpit just as he had seen Billy Sun day skip. And he tried to pepper his pulpit language with quaint phra es, just as he had *cen Billy Sunday pepper. "Hop for the mercy Beat while the hopping ia good." "You hit Piiy Re hear 9^ f? Trr Patiencr anxi Kfhc?ar?uf? are u><?? lit >r)My w-(u? 10 .v?ji OetVf* Oil I A. <|<* flip k.l? I' J; r < whether the tfciur ?hmjM i ' M#(M 10 Ht?* jtnd jmi- (? left hand uu the bul k y' h ci? us, ? ??? KT. before proj>??? ujj (O ii . . .. j? or ivjictb^ >>e aitouid do ti tlj^ hejirllKug. with HI* .eft on ('??* | mantelpiece. may threaten the friend Mhiji of a lifetime. , The uutlior hiou him to do It fiout the hearthrug ? la convinced that flow there and there only-can he convey to the heroine the depth and sincerity at hit paaalon The producer la po*lt)ve that a true gentleman would wAlk around the top of the table and do It from behind a <, chair The actor coiue* to the rescue, lie "feels" he can do It only from the left-hand bot tom corner. of the table. "Oh. well. If you feel aa strongly about it aa all that, mjr d?ar boy," aaja the producar. -that aada. It. It's you who've got to play the part.** "Do you know," aaya the author. think be'a right. It does aeem to I " 1 The rehearsal proceed* Fire min ute* later the argument whether a fa ther would naturally curse his child before or after she Mis taken off her hat provide* n new crisis.? Jerome K. Jerome, in Harper's Magazine. Totem Polea Figure in Religioua Belief Tin*- western and northern Indians have ft. i monopoly on the ornamental totem. according to those who have made a Hiudy of the subject. Totero isi.i ap|?ei.r?> In kindred forms all over Hie world. Savage tribe* all apparent ly posses* a set of - beliefs and prac tices, mythological, religious, artistic, ceremonial and economic, that grow from i heir attitude toward animals, plnnts and inanimate objects. These beliefs and practices govern their mode of life and give rise to their form* of worship. This Idea still lin gers with the Alaskan Indians In the I significance the totem has In regard j to their family and the family myths j and superstitions. These Indians be j lleve they are descended from some ! bird, fish, Least .jpr other object, and ' take this as their symbol. The em blem chosen iy carved or palhted on all belongings, and is regarded as the visible being who has to do with their ; welfare, and carries with It certain ! obligations. Those with the same ' crest, for instance, rannot intermarry, i Christianity is in some places leading to abolition of the totem. ? Nature | Magazine. Relics of Pagan Days Not everybody knows that every time h#4 or she writes down the name of the day of the week, the name of a Pagan god or goddess is being perpetu ated. When Kngland passed under the sway of the Norsemen the people largely adopted fhr Norse system of gods, lifting them in to the nearest j corresponding planet or deity of the I -(toman calendar. So the Day of Mars ?the Jtomnn god of war ? turned Into Tlu's daeg or day ? Tin being the Norse god of war; the.Duy of Mercury Info Woden's daeg, Jupiter's day into Thor's day, and the Day of Venus Into the Day of Freya, the Norse god dess of love, corresponding with Ve nus. Whether Saturn's day remained as It was or turned Into the Day of Saeter, we don't know for certain. But the Sun's day and the Moon's day are obvious. Work and Worry That "leughlng ? philosopher" of old, Dernoc \f u*. jesting at mankind's anx ieties. , o a great age. We all admit thm ,s is not work but worry that kills. I.oth of these call for the expenditure ?<( a proportionate amount' of nervous energy. Work, however, has u definite aim and termination, :he result of which Is the feeling of serene satisfaction we all have in work accomplished, (in the other hand, worry, having no definite objective; Is endless, achieving nothing beyond a prodigal waste of energy, accompa nied b\ actual wear and fear of gray matter and nerves thqt may In the long run be productive of vphyslcal wreck age. ? Kxcbn nge. No Dry Cell for Him Sim L'pdlke was taken Into court the other da.v as the result of having a slight mlxup with n clerk In the Cash Pood store. It seems the\ were argu ing over a baseball game nnd the clerk Idt Sim with a KVc? nt hag of salt he happened to ha\e in his hand. Sim countered with .1 It-battery he whs taking back to a radio store on ac- , count of its being run down. The Judge said th'?. ns the clearest case t of a.-.-. Hilt and battery that had ?.ver ! come before him, and that l>oth parties ? seemed equally guilty. Sin) pleaded, '? however, that as the battery was dis ; charged he should also be discharged, and the Judge saw the logic of It nnd , let hlai off. And the choir leader, stiff and serious 1 and solemn-eyed, flourished his baton: "Now all you men with corns, carry i the chorus." "Now, you ladies who ! don't paint, sing the last Verse." It 1 was very painful. Yes, undoubtedly, horse play cAn be made to do its part In glorifying tho word of God. But.it has to be used carcfnlly and skilfully and' ar tistically or the objective will be lost. And we don't mean maybe.-? Selects I' * 1 1 ? ? ? ? - -* ?? "* N?f irr To DtkUr* aadl Odit?ra All persons indebted to the late w. r. mn or having claims against the late W. T. Hall or his estate will plea** make settlement with the un dersigned. All person* having claim!; against him will file claim with proof, of same with the undersigned. THOMAS P. HALL. J 18 K. Chestnut St., Akron, Ohio. FINAL DISCHARGE I Notice is hereby given that one month from this date, on Tuesday, January 6th, 1926, I will make to the Probate Judge of Kershaw County my final return a* Administratrix of the estate of Kdward Gamble, deceased, and on the same date I will apply to the said Judge for a final discharge as said Administratrix. LOTTIE GAMBLE. Camden, S. C., Dec. 3, 1986. FINAL DISCHARGE Notice Is hereby given that one month from thia date, on Monday, January 4th, 1986, I will make to the Probate Judge of Kerahaw County my final retprn as Administrator of the eatate of H. C. Hall, deceased, and on the same date I will apply to the said Judge lor a final discharge -as said Administrator. a B. HALL. Camden, S. C., Dec. 8, 1926. MASTER'S SALE State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. (Court of Common Pleas) M- I- Alexander, Plaintiff, against Hattie Mitchell, Gary Mitchell, Lily Mitchell, Jessie Mitchell, Rharoe Brothers, a corporation under the laws of the State of South Caro lina and A. J. Ives, C#1_ L. Wilcox, A. L. Wilcox and W. T. Hopkins, co-partners in trade as Wilcox, Ives and Company, Defendants. Under and by virtue of an order by his Honor, W. H, Townsead, Judgo of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, of date December 17th, 1925, I will offer for sale in front of the Court House* door in the City of Camden, on the first Monday in January next, being tho 4th day thereof, during the legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder for cash, the following described real estate: "All that piece, parcel or tract of land, situate, lying and being in the State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw about twelve miles South west of the City of Camden on the old Camden-Columbia ~ Two Notch RcMd, containing thirty-six and 3-100 (3t? 3-100) acres more or less, said tra?t of land being bounded on the North by lands qf Cook, formerly of Jackson and Cook, on the East by lands wf Sam Mitchell and Joe Cook, on the South and West by lands of John Mitchell, said tract of land be in$: the same conveyed to me by deed of J. T. Hay, bearing date October 0th, 1900 and of record in the office of the Clerk of Court for Kershaw County in Book DDD page 3$. "Ail that piece, parcel or tract of land; situate lying end being in the State of South Carolina, county of Kershaw lying and being in West Watcee containing one hundred nine teen acres/ more or less, and lying on the Two Notch Road from Camden to Columbia being' bounded on the Xorth by Notch Road, on the East by lauds of Mahallie Mitchell, on the South by lands formerly of W, H. Jones and by lands claimed by the estate of Player, and on the West by lands of Higgins and by lands of Mahallie Mitchell. The above de scribed tract of land is the same con veyed to me by deed of F. M. Zemp of date October 81st, 1919. Also all that piece, parcel or tract of land, situate, lying and being in the State and County above set forth in West Wateree Township containing fifty acres more or lees, being bound ed on the North by lands of Joeeph Cook, on the East by landa of Jol>n Mitchell, and on the Wert by lands of Ben, Getty s And Sam Btaftrham. The above described tract of land' if the Same conveyed to me bydted'of J. L. Guy of date February ' llth and of* record in the office of the Clerk of Court for Kershaw County In Book A. C. 727."* . ' ^ Any one desiring to bid at said sale shall deposit with tjie Master in money or certified check the sum of one hundned dollars (flOO.OO) as in evidence of good faith. R. H. HILTON, Master for Kershaw County. December 17th, 1925. ? I : I MASTER'S SALE. State of South Carolina, Cbunty of Kershaw, Court of Common Pleas. f. M. Clfichester and L. A. Wittkow sky, Trustees, Plaintiffs, . 4 against Camden Iceland Cold Storage Com pany, and Farmers and Merchants State Bank, Defendants. Under an order of fCotirt herein, dated December 14, 1926, 1 will sell to the highest bidder at public auc tion, for cash, before the Jtefshaw County Court House door, in Camden, in said State, during the legal holies of sale on the first Mondtyy being the 4th "day of January 1926,' 'ftie *-foTWv ing described real estate: ... "All that piece, pircel or lot of land situate in the City of Camden, County of Kershaw, State of South Carolina, being rectangular in shape, and meas uring two hundred (200) feet, more or less, from north to south and oije hundred (100) feet, more or less, from ! east to west. Said lot starting at a point two hundred and twenty-five (225) feet, more or less, east from an iron peg on Mill Street, and from that point extending at right angles northward two hundred (200) feet, more or less, thence at right angles I eastward one hundred (100) feet, | more or less, thence at right angles southward, two hundred (200) more or leas, thence a t right *3 westward one hundr^f more or less, to the atartia* Said lot being bounded north t,y?r?i frty of Parrish; east by property ? Thos, Wilson, or the NorthwSLjJ Railway Company; south by u-J street of the City of Camden; Broperty of MeNair and proper^ ,? larshal, of wbkh will more fujiJ * pear by plat attached by W. K KjT! land. Surveyor, of date June, 1920 u <1ced from -J* H. Osburn to Itw Herfurth, it being the same propert,' conveyed to the Camden Ice and Cok Storage Company, Incorporated w R. W. Herfurth. Also that par^l 1 lot of land in ..the City of County of Kershaw, State of Carolina, fronting sixty-seven feet west on Mill Street of C?. and extending back east of a uni width to a depth of Two Hundred Twenty feet (220), more or le&a, and bounded on the North by lot f<>nn?rf? of H. L. Schlosburg and S. P. Bra* ington, now of Charlotte*^ Marshall east by land formerly of P. U^S Manning, now of J. H. Osborne, south by property formerly of Thomas Wtt. son, bat now of Northwestern Hail road Company of South Carolina, art west by Mill Street <>f Camden, $outh Carolina. It being the same property conveyed to the Catndep Ice and Cold Storage Company, Incorporated, bv R. W. Herfurth, together with ti* plant, structure*, erections, and coi structions, now or hereafter placed thereon, and in addition thereto, of mschine.ry, fixtures, appliances, in.' plements and appurtenances of even kind and character, which are now or may be hereafter at any time situated, lying and bei&g in, on or about the said plants, premises, and property described herein* and used or pro vided for use in and about t^e opera tion of the aaid plants and property and the carrying on of the business of the Company in the same, whether the same are now owned by the ssid party of the first part or ahall here after be acquired by it." bid from any one, except the ptaintiff Before the Master shsll receive any or parties holding liens on said prop erty, he shall require ^a deposit of three hundred ($300.00) dollars, in cash or by certified check on soae reliable, bank, as evidence of good faith, said money to be returned to unsuccessful bidder. R. H. HILTON, Master for Kerahaw County. Dec. 16, 1925. FINAL DISCHARGE Notice is hereby given that Ida L. McLain, Executrix of the Will of John D. McLain, deceased; has thi* day made application to me for' ? final discharge from her trust as said Executrix and that Monday, January 18^h, 1926, at 11 o'clock a.m., as the time, and the Probate office in Cam den, iS. C., the place for the hearing of the said petition. w. l. Mcdowell, Judge of Probate Ker. Co. Camden, S. C., December 16, 1925. THE BANK'S CHRISTMAS GREETING \ To our customers, to the entire cpmmunity, and to all the world, the Christmas wish of this bank is that prosperity and thrift and happiness may prevail everywhere. 4, \ ? * The First