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Stomach Out of Fix? 'Phone your grocer or druggist for a case of this delicious di? gestant?u glass with meals gives delightful relief, or no charge for the first dozen utfed. Shivar Ale f ' Pure Oleeitive Aromatic# With > Shivar, Mineral Water 4 Qln?er Nothing like it for renovating old, worn-out stomachs, converting food into rich blood and sound flesh. If your regular dealer cannot supply you, telephone Camden Wholesale Grocery Ce. Wholesale Distributors Bootlegger Escapes Saturday afternoon a bootlegger driving a Lincoln touring car finally escaped from Officer Dollard after a 25-mile chase that led almost to Camden. Mn, Dollard drove alongside the c*r on North Main street and ordered the driver to halt. Instead of stopping the man put ,his foot on the accelerator und moved away, Dollard phased him on his motorcycle to I)alecII where he changed to nn automobile and continued the chase until a tire went out and he had to stop. .The bootlegger put out a smoke screen' from his muffler during the chase that helped to prevent the offircr from catching him. The newness of Mr. Dollrird's motorcycle also prevented him from chasing the boot, logger down.?Monday's Sumter Item 7'Tho Swedish girl gives her fiartce a plain gold band ring-upon her engagement to him, while she in turn receives a similar token from him. April Fool's Day originated. in an ancient pagan festival, such as the iluli Festival of^ the Hindus, or the Feast of, Fools, celebrated by the Itomans on February 17. i Renew Your Health | by Purification Any physician will tell, you that 'Perfect Purification of .the System j.; Nature's Foundation of Porfect Health." Why not rid yourself of chronic ailments that are undermining your vitality? Purify your cnl; i c system; by Faking a thorough course of Calotabs,?-once or twice a week for several week&?and see how Nature rewards you with health. Calotabs are the greatest of all system purifiers. Get a family package, containing full directions. Only l'.r) cts. At any drug store. (Adv.* UOIJ) FROM THB BRA ' Twenty-five Millions Wrought Up From Torpedoed La u rent ic Nearly $25,000,000 in gold ha* been salvaged from the White Star liner Laurentie, torpedoed and sunk off th# west COftSt of Ireland by a (it i man submarine in 1017. Although the work of recovery was carried on at intervals over a period of seven years, the cost, as stated recently in parliament by J. C. O, Davidson, financial secretary to the admiralty, was only 138,000 pounds, or roughly about $000,000. The first full report of the work of salvaging this gold is given by Lieut. Commander Damant, R. N., of the Racer, who superintended the recovery in the following interview with a reporter for the London Daily Jdail: * "Diving at 12Q;feet is always difficult, and the wreck lay two miles from land in a very exposed spot iu the Atlantic. It was only possible to work for six months in the year. "When we first started to work, immediately after it was sunk, the Laurentie lay on its side at an angle of 60 degrees from the vertical. Using explosives we blew in a door in the side of the ship at an angle of 00 degrees from tht vertical. Using explosives we bl$w. in a door in the side of the ship near the strong room. "The foreman diver, Warrant Shipwright Miller, went down, a transverse pass'agc, and eventually reached the strong room in the middle of the ship. He unscrewed some nuts ?from? the hinges an$. had the strong room open in a few minutes. Most of the gold then lay before him in boxes. "It was very difficult to remove these boxes of g/ld. The diver had to crawl up a steeply sloping passage in pitch darkness, pushing a heavy box before him, and occasionally lifting .it over obstacles. - ? "On the first day we removed one box and on the following day three more. "Then a gale Sew up from the north and lasted a week, during which pieces of decking and other debris were washed on shore showing that something had happened to the Laurentie. _ "When the sea subsided and it was possible to send a diver down he found that the whole ship had collapsed like a pack of cards, driving the decks out sideways.- This had been caused by the enormous pressure exercised 4>y the aot4on- of the- waves deep below -the surface. "There no hollow spacb in I which men might crawl about, and we had to cut" a way right into the crumpled ship with explosives. "Although since the beginning of the operations, we have removed 3,000 tons of ....material. In the remaining part of 1017 we recovered about 1,000,000 pounds worth of gold. "In 1919 the work was resumed and -Some gold was recovered. In 1920 and 1921 we were very unlucky. "When the ship collapsed the gold was divided into two sections. The first lot was comparatively easy to recover. The second consignment, however, was buried beneath about ten feet of sand and debris, consisting of broken up fragments of the ship and its fittings, including such things as berths, baths, wash basins and tables. "The divers worked in a ^ja^ged crater in (the middle of the ship, and to remove the sand they had to scoop it into sacks vyith their hands. The sand was made quite hard by the action of tfye waves, and the divers loosened it with a fire-hose pipe let down from the Racer. "The divers squirted the jet of water into the sand, thereby loosening it, and as he did this he pushed his hand into the loosened sand, to feel for the gold. "The men crouched or lay down on the sand, scooping it into sacks and feeling for the gold. Sometimes at the end of several days of tfork thejr would have' their fingernails worn down almost to the quick, and the tips of their fingers soft like sponges. They would not wear gloves. _ "In 1922, 1923 and 1924 we made good progress, and at the end of that year there was less than 1 per cent, of the gold in the wreck. The sand was then gaining fast on the divers and the work had to be abandoned. "Throughout there was not one accident, but there was a queer mishap. To prevent the airpipe from dragging on their helmets the divers tied the pipe to a part of the wrecks allowing themselves to a certain amount of slack. "One day a man was working head downward when .the trousers of his] suit became filled with air and ho' started to rise to the surface upside down. When he had risen some distance he was stopped by the lashing of the pipe below, and so hurig upside down halfway between the surface and the bottom, like a mine. ; "We heard a muffled voice on the telephone saying: 'There's some water coming into my helmet. Only a little but be as quick as you can.' "We sent another man down at once, and he cut the pipe loose while he was standing astride dt. Immediately the other map rose and the pipe dragged the second man to, the surface with him. Fortunately neither of them struck the bottom of the Racer. "Owing to the high compression a diver could only work at the bottom about one-half hour at a time. It took him about half an hour to come to the surface so that the pressure in his suit might be reduced by stages. ' ? ^'During the operations we had a number of cases of high-compression sickness. These were treated by putting the affected men~at once into the recompression chamber on board. He was there put under a high pressure again, and very soon felt better. * . "Some of the bars of gold recovered were bent right round into a' "U" shape, while others had pdhbles driven hard into them?and also half crowns. "One of the queerest finds was T shiall siIverfcoin of the reign of Edward II or Edward IV. I do not know how it got there unless it belonged to somebody on the boat." ^ May Face Heavy Damages Sumter, April 7.?The coroner's jury investigating the death of J. W. Griffin, middle aged painter who was found dead in the city guarf) house Sunday night, returned the following verdict at the inquest held Monday afternoon: "That J. W. Griffin came to his death by asphyxiation (suffocation) in the guard room of the city of Sufnter, during the afternoon on April 4, 1926* -Griffin was* placed in the guard room Sunday afternoon in a drunken condition, and when an officer carried his supper to the cell that night found the man with his, face down on his cot dead. * It was brought out at the inquest that Griffin had been taken from the front steps of his home by Officers Cariigan and Dollard who were summoned by some of Griffin's neighbors. It is said that the dead man's wife was not at home when he was taken up. Attorney L. I). Jennings represented Mrs. Griffin at the inquest Monafternoon, and it was reported Tuesday morning that a suit will be filrd against the city for $100,000 for the death of the man, charging the city with neglect in caring for him; It cannot be established definitely whether there will bc a spit against the city or in the event that there ia, whether the amount wUI be to large V . y LA8T YEARS' MURDERS Hilhwt Rt^rd in Country's History, Insurance Check-up Shows ? i _ The United Status reached the highest murder record of its history in 11)25, a rise of from 1.8 per cent. I to U.l per cent, per 100,000, accord-j j ing to preliminary statistics for seventy-seven American cities compiled by Frederick L. Hoffman, consulting statistician of the Prudential Life Insurance Company of America. They appear in an article in the current issue of the Spectator, an insurance (journal. The rate increased in thirty-five cities and decreased in forty others, while in two it remained unchanged. New York City, the statistician aays, was one of the two cities in which the rate remained unchanged, even though his figures show that there wdre thirteen fewer homicides in this city in 1925 than in 1924, A decrease in population, it is asserted, accounts for the unchanged rate. Chicago had the greatest number of homicides during 1925, Mr. Hoffman's tables show. The Illinois city had 503 homicides last year to 509 in 1924. New York had the next I highest pumber of homicides 374, a j decrease fropi 387 in 1924. Detroit | had 243 homicides in 1925, thg third j highest number. Mr. Hoffman esti- j j mates that there were not fewer than | 12,000 deaths due to murder in this' country during the course 4o( the year. He declared that the economic loss to the nation was very serious. Finds Big Fortune Albany, Ga., April 5.?Cleve. Riley, negro farmer of Lee county, today was auxiou.<Uy awaiting reports from Washington as to the value^of three bars of supposed gold bulllon^'which he uncovered while plowing last week. Each of the bars were stamped $50,000 and dated 1784. Riley believes he has found a fortune valued at .$150,000, but has sent the metal to Washington to -have it assayed. The negro said the gold went ujinoticed for three days chiefly because the discovery took place o:i April 1; However, Jini Varher, white contractor of $asser, who had been supplying the negro with supplies for the crop, confirmed the story and the postmaster at Bronwood Vouched for the shipment of the metal to the treasury at Washington. 'According to Riley's story, while plowing last Thursday he struck a buried object. Expecting to find a root he began digging. His efforts *brought forth a rusty metal pot. Further investigation revealed three bars of gold. The date 1784 and amount, $50,000, were clearly discernable. ' \. Was Flim Flam Game. Albany,/Ga., April 8.?The discovery of^hree bars of "gold" by the use of "divining instruments" cost Cleve Riley, Lee county negro farmer $100 and a mule and buggy. Riley, who sought gold with the assistance of another negro, whose flame he said was "Green" unearthed three bars, each stamped $50,000 and dated 1784. Green told Riley after the discovery that it would cost $200 t^o send the gold to Washington to have it assayed and offered to share the expense. Riluy gave him a money order for $100. Yesterday Green borrowed Riley's mule and buggy. He failed to return it. Riley started an investigation to day and tried to stop payment on the money order, buj; learned it had been cashed in Mscoti. Riley flrat^aaid he had ploughed up the three bars whH^at-work on-thtr farm. He admitted however today that they had been discovered by himself and Green with the "assistance" of the dividing instruments," and expressed the belief that the bars had been previously placed in the field by Green. Gypsies Get Their Own Dose Miami, April 12.?Mote than 120 Gypsies in the midst of an open council at their camp near here, today were held up and robbed of money and goods valued at $3,196 by eight unidentified and unmasked men.l , In the midst of a conference at whieh representatives of ten separate bands of Gypsies war# discussing summer plans four men appeared and 'informed the leaders' that a jewel theft1 had been perpetrated In Miami and that they were officers seeking the robbers. Asked to produce evidence of their authority or warrants, the intruders pointed to aft automobile parked on the highway containing four other men dressed in,sheets with c^ude red crosses painted on their backs. Four of the men held the camp at bay with pistols while their companions robbed the wagons bf Spanish, French and American gold. To shame co-eds in their pidilic use of powder puffs, lipsttckiL and rouge, men students at the University of California shawd in class. Mrs. Annie L. Kuck was fatally injured Sunday night in Charleston by being struck by un automobile driven by Adolph Buse, who is being held by the coroner pending the inquest. MASTER'S SALE State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. (Court of Common Pleas) fc 4 < J. C. Cook, Plaintiff, against Mrs. M. A. Shaw, ct al., Defendants. Under an,, order of Court herein dated March 8, 1926, I will sell to the highest bidder at public auction, for cash, before the Kershaw County Court House door, in Camden, in said Stfcte, during the legal hours of sale on the first Monday, being the third day of May, 1926, the following described real estate: "All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land lying, being and situate" in the County of Kershaw, state aforesaid, containing two acres, more or less, and bounded north by Lockhart Road, south by W. A. Shaw, east by lands of J. R. Catoe and west by Loekhart Ro&d and being almost; triangular in shape and form." Also, "All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land lying, being and situate in the County of Kershaw, state aforesaid, containing three hundred and twelve (312) acres, more or less, and bounded north by lands of R. L* Sowell, south .by lands of J'no. (. Bowers land, the mine road being the dividing line between this and the J[po. I. Bowers land, east by lands n6w or formerly owned * by D. L. Catoe, formbHy William Catoe, and west by lands of Jack Sullivan." Anyone desiring to bid at said sale shall first deposit with the Master the sum of two hundred ($200) dollars in ,cash or a check for that amount to be approved by the Master before the sale, as evidence of good faith. R. H, HILTON, Master for Kershaw County. April 13, 1926. Tapped in their berths as they slept, twenty-five members of the crew of the oil tanker, Gulf of Venezuela, lost their lives when the vesseL burned at the dock at Port Arthur^ Texas, early Sunday morning as the result of a gasoline explosion. Eleven others received burns and injuries, and two seamen are missing. ~ ANNOUNCEMENT. Fdr County Auditor rl I hereby announce myself as a candidate for re-election for the office of County Auditor for Kershaw County, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. B. E. SPARROW. Announcement For Sheriff To the Voters of Kershaw County: Having served as deputy in the office of Sheriff for the past six years and being thoroughly familiar with the duties of the office, I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of Sheriff of Kershaw County and will appreciate the support of the voters. J. HENRY McLEOD. FOR MAGISTRATE I hereby announce myself as a candidate , for Magistrate for DeKalb Township, subject to the rules of the . PpiflQt;i;atie-primary. ?.??:? W, L. DePASS, Jr. FORT TREASURER I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of Treasurer of Kershaw County in the coming primary,, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic party. 1 S. W. HOfiUE. Far Judge of Prabate I hereby announce myself as candidate for the office af Judge of Probate for Kershaw County, subject to the rules of Democratic primary. SAMUEL NLsNICHOIiSON. For Re-Election as Probate Judge I hereby announce'as a candidate for re-election, to the office of Judge of Probate in the approaching countyprimary subject to regulations of the Democratic party and with assurances that continued endorsement can but accentuate the honest endeavor that has been mine throughout former years. W. L. McDOWELL. sS'.lt Pays To/Use NITRATE Lo/SODAi yafc Uet Supply At Once jjyjCK- Be sure you'have it at hand ^ when you are ready to use it. ' " At present prices, nitrate is cheap enough ~? to pay big profit* from the increased crops it will produce. q Ask your county agent or send a postal card with J your address to our neajr^jbt office for our free bulletins | . which have helped thousands of farmers to grow I bigger and move profitable crops. jj Chilean Nitrate of Soda<?educational bureau | Dr. Wllltsm S. My?r?, Director *1 lilt Hurt Bldy., Atlanta. G?. 402 Hibernta Bunk Bide., New Orion ri*, L?. U 702 Cotton Exehanf* Bid*., Mamphii, Tenn. 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