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IfflWAS * TBAVWU; 8TORIR8. i lnllon WriU* * HU Trl* ! ('rohninK Atlantic. | (Written for Th? Chronicle.) - ?. . . 1;.^ , 4 On The Atlantic. , This letter is feeing written on ] Mrd one of the fastest and moat 1 luxurious ships that cross the Atlan- 1 tic. My home is 700 miles from New 1 York. Six days ago I bid friends 1 udby, stopped in New York 18 hours 1 Jnd now I ??? within less than 200 ? mik.s of European shores. Day altar : pi morrow or just seven days after 1 leaving'homo I will dine In London. 1 In point of speed It would seem that the top of the world has ibeen reach- ; ed. Perhaps it has. -.There was a lapse of 2,000 yeara between the two- < -<-*? ^W v-.r _- a~e, - ^ ur? i 1 wheel cart and the automobile. The r \juiwiy-loving, self-indulging Nero must l>av<; smirked with satisfaction *when he was borne to the chariot races in a gold-tasseled litter resting upon the shoulders of brawny slaves. Nero thought perhaps that he had reached the top^f the world, but the average American laborer of today enjoys gi eater comfofts and conveniences. As a passengef on a modern liner Nero would be ash&med to stick his head out of the steerage. Our Ship. The ship on which 1 am traveling represents one of the-finished products . of mcchanjcal science. - The acme of comfort and convenience, she caters i to the whims of the .. luxury-loving class. She has a speed of' 30 miles an hour, is the length of three average city blocks,* and her crew and passengers outnumber the population of the average American town. On the 8j400 mile six day journey" between New York and Cherbourg her mighty engines drink up 70 tons of fuel oil. The record of 4 days and 12 hours from New York to Cherbourg Is held by the muratana, sister ship of the ill-fated L^Lusitania, whose bowels were, rtppgd open by a German torpedo ? within sight of the Irish coast-a few weeks -4 before war was declared. | Midnight Sailings. Midnight sailings are becoming popular with big liners. This innovation is a bid for the patronage of the idle rich and the .busy man of affairs. The New York sailing schedule of the boat on which I am traveling is 12:10 midnight, This is a convenient hour for the. great majority of first-class passengers?men- and women who have seen so much of the world that a journey across the ocean jr?^-on a moderrr liner means*no more than a two-hour' trip to some..well-' kn.wn watering pfece. They leave I ' I#?/-'-.. : ?? hi i iipini m i ? .u, .. ; i ; ?r(?hr^inr Mf?i* g.t aboard a few minutes be. tore the ahJp sails. Udiw in ?.veni l^d"m.nn? T*ni,iti"t UP? <lo?k. to Zn Jl ?r imm"ulata full dress motor to the oier in Ncpe naive limousines and chatter roily up the gangplank where they per ha pa join a aecond dinner party Ihln t ,nt? th<? night' And hen too one^eea the haJf-tipay fdlow ' <l,nner dre8B making his way up the gangplank with the aid of a trusty abip'a steward. When the r?SvMem awake next morning the ship is luLr* m<i mttny of them ^ke lunch in their staterooms and do not 2K ?n the deck8 tlU ^eniog. Midnight sailings are fine for the idle rich or the busy commercial tourists who look upon journeys across the ocean aa -commonplace incidents in one s life, but they do not appeal to ? great middle classes that travel or pleasure. There is something thrilling as one aeds the big liner warped out of her berth by the wasplike little tugs, when farewells are shouted, handkerchiefs are waved and the mighty engines take upr the steady throb that does not cease till the other Bide is reached. There is an intensely human side to this scene which money cannot buy. Our Passengers The passenger list is comparatively light at this season. The tourist season jsovef and- the passenger list is made up wealthy foreigners who have been spending the summer in America 01 the idle American who is running over to England or France to spend * fcw days with relatives or friends. The second class is made uplargely of business and traveling men who form a part of the big army of aggressive American salesmen who are putting American made goods all over England and the Continent. And again yog . will find the swarthyskinned European, well-groomed, .wellrtailored, whose ancestors any one or two degrees removed from the sterile hillsides of southern Europe, returning to the home of his forbears in his hour of prosperity. Just a Big Hotel If you have never been abroad and want to get a good idea of a modern steamship merely think'1 of a big American hotel. Our 'ship has its elevators, its palm gardens",'its swimming pqpls, its gymnasiums, its dining rooms and restaurants, its lounges, smoking rooms, writing tfooms and libraries. Life aboard ship flows along in the same smooth way day after day. It is more like a summer resort in the middle 'of the ocean. It has the summer resort characters. The rocking chair brigade does not miss a morsel 'that will furnish food for gossip. The gossip of the ship originates in this half-secluded corner where tongues keep pace with knitting* needles. This news bureau of the ship will tell you confidently about Mr. Money Bags who is going to Paris to get a quick divorce from madam whose social- ambitions do not appeal to her.-practical minded husband, or the beautiful blonde who promenades late in the * evening with her maid for company who is the wife ~ of Mniionaii^^uSL^hr^rno^o^ genial with her husband and spends I the most of her time abroad. The! countess who appears to be very exclusive turns out to be ,the head miL liner of a fashionable dress-making I establishment on her way to Paris to J study the spring styles and the young lady with the form and features of I an aristocrat about whom the ship's company had woven many* romantic I tales turns out to be a former chorus I girl on her way to play a minor roll | in a London theatre. The plain little I man with heavy lenses, who puttersl around asking unusual questions and! carries the air of a weary grocery clerk on a brief vacation is introduced at the concert on the fourth night out I as a world celebrity. The modern ocean liner is the smoking room of a Pullman car in an exaggerated sense. Do not believe half you hear. . Rivalry of the Sea There is rivalry between the American and British ships. This spirit is! reflected in the ship's crew. I am on a British ship. Yesterday the Levia-j than caught up with us and then be-J gan a mid-ocean race in real earnest. I Gradually the mighty Leviathan took the lead and disappeared some time I during the night. The greeting ofl the room ste^rd next morning was,! "Well, we passed the Leviathan dur-1 ing the night!" It was said liv' al spirit of exultation which was par-J donable. But it was a mistake^ fftfe! Leviathan beat us into Cherbourg by 1 10 hours. j/ . i The Language of the Sea Some fifty different languages are spoken in the world but the language of the sea, like the lhhguagc of love, is universal. When Mr. Daniels was secretary of the navy an effort was made to change certain nautical terms to common everyday terms. I have often wondered why "8 bells" which means 8 o'clock could not be changed to plain 8 o'clock or why "starboard was not called right and "port" p^ain left. But the change would cause confusion. , A ship's' crew is made up or many nationalities who speak many different languages, but they all understand the language of the sea in terms of bolls, and the German sailor is as much at home on an English ship as the English sailor is on a Gorman ship. It is likely that this language, now several thousand ypars old,^will. 1 be used on ships until . the world adopts a universal language. , There are many diversions on a modern liner, but even six days in crossing seems like a long time and the flickering lights at the mouth of the Channel which will begin to appear at sundown will be welcome. Tomorrow evening we will land at Southampton.' Sheriff Hunter Makes Suggestion When Sheriff John P.- Hunter, Of Lancaster county, . speaks he has something to say. Sheriff Hunter will retire two years from now with a record of length of service and fidelity to duty such as very few peace officers have been able tomake. For monTEfiau forty years he hasheen sheriff oi>is county, except for four years when ne ,was United States marshal, altering that long period he hasp always got his man, and has. done so without using a gun. What he says is, therefore, always entitled to consideration, as he knows what he is talking about when it comes to enforcement of the laws. Writing about officer being required, in swearing out a warrant, to give the source of their information, Sheriff Hunter writes as follows to the papers: . ' "I wish to say through your columns,' that in my judgm^t, there are very few people's houses in South Carolina searched fo? whiskey, who are innocent of handling liquor in an illegal way, therefore, T do not believe an officer swearing out a search warrant for liquor, should be required to give the source of his information, for often times hie information is derived from a timid, law-abiding neighbor of the viblHtor of the prohibition law, which is given the officer in strict confidence. There are very few private citisens in our state who believe in law and ord?^ who wish to get the ill-will of violators of l*w by letting it be, known that they have given officers information as to their violations of law?and I do not blaBto", them?for if they did, it would oftdn cause them to have trouble bad class of violators pf law.. CortW quentty, I hope the legislature will aiinul that part of tha law which re* quires an officer to give the source of his information when he Swears out a search warrant for liquor, for aa the law now stands, it is certainly favorable to tha bootlegger. The officer who makes the search is supposed to be a peace officer and not- a strife raiser, arbkh he. would be in- assay instances. If he gave the source of his information.?Cheater Reporter. ' M rjt "f hsrefL' Greatest Buick Ever Built is "T the Greatest Value Ever Offered ... hook at the hew Buicks?note their prices "? compare their grace and refinements with those of other cars?then drive one of them! You've never driven anythitig like it, you've never seen value fo compare. Here Is the Greatest Btiick Ever Built!,^ Series 115 5 Passenger 2-Door8eda? . ' > ;-*v I 4 Peseepger 8poet Roadster . 5 Passenger Sport Touring 2 Passenger Coupe . i * / 4 P????ogM Co^itryCUb <3oup? 5P?j?n??4.t>oorSe4? . ' 4 PaaMAger Coup* . . 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Browder, 83, Confederate veteran, struck down by a low flying plane in a fleld near here yesterday, halted temporarily tonight pending reports of a chemist who is making a series of tests to determine if a strand of hair fouud upon the plane of Lieut. A. J. Lehman, of Leban^*v Ind., is that of a human. Meanwhile three army officers, Lieutenants Lehman, JXl.A.Dennison, andGlaire Stroh, are held at Magwell Field awaiting the arrival of Fourth Corps Area officials and possible court trial by military court jn connection with the death of Browder. They were arrested by direction of Major H. H. C. Richardson, commandant of the post. . .Mxy Browder was in charge of a ' group of cotton pickers in a fleld, ^ when an airplane suddenly dipped \ down, a section of the landing gear striking him a fatal blow and injur- 1 ing Clark Henry, one of the cotton < pickers. The plane ascended to a point directly over the scene, where, ( after circling about once, made off . without having been identifled. The accused men made no state- 1 ment, _l 1 J Weather Damage To Cotton. Weather damage to raw cotton ter picking has long been a source of much waste, entailing annual losses estfmatedbat upward of $25,000,000, says the U. ^ Department of Agriculture in a new bulletin. By "weather damage" is meant damage that results from excessive moisture in bales of cotton. ? Department studies have shown that there are two distinct stages in the process of deterioration of cotton as &-result of this condition ?mildew or discoloration,.and deejay of the fiber. Mildew, according to the bulletin, towers the grade and consequently, the value, but does ndt seriously weaken t&e fiber. The fib$r, however, U seriously weakened by the process of decay, and eventually may be destroyed entirely. v Cotton inay have been picked before- fully mature or-while wet with rain. It ma^'have become damp while piled oh the ground in the field, or it may have be,CJV stored temporarily in cotton ' houses or steels with leaky roofs. When wet co$tonJf taken ft> the girt, the resulting bale is excessively wet and damage to the fiber results. More frequently, moisture^gets intot}ie bale after it is packed, either from rain directly on the cotton, absorption from the ground or wet floors or walls | leaky roofs or warehouses or freight cars,^gr, exposure on freight or com^ press platforms. ' Six tests were made by the department in five representative localities in th^e Cotton Belt. Seven bales of | cotton were used, one bale beingstored: in warehouse, and the remaining six. bales exposed to the weather under various conditions. The loss in the exposed bales varied from a" few pounds to more than 50 per cent of a bale. The six stored bales lost an average of less than 1 per cent. rf , . s'; To protect' cotton from weather damage, the bulletin says, it is of the greatest possible importance that the bales be kept from contact with, the ground or any other source of moisture, Cotton should be matured thoroughly and dried out before it is ginned. If it is ginned while wet, the' staple probably "will be "gin cut" and in other ways damaged, and the resulting bale* will have an excess of moisture. .When- it is impossible to place the cotton lp a warehouse immediately, the bales should be placed ?-iii-"- * r '1 i =1 on poles and turned often. Copies of the publication, Department Bulletin No. 1438*D, "Weather! Damage To Cotton," may be obtained! by writing the Department of Agri culture, Washington, D. C. Major Hess, superintendent of the I Washington police department, has! banned "tin-can" marriage serenaders in the national capital. Recently Washington streets have been usurp-1 ed by bridal parties in automobiles I loaded with rattling jynk. MAST'Kit's SALE ?"** ' ' State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. J. L. Guy, et al., Plaintiffs, against (IA. K. Rose, et al., Defendants. Pursuant to an order of Court* here-) in, 1 will sell to the highest bidder, at public auctio^, for cash, before the Kershaw County Court Houaa door, Camden,C, on the first Monday,] being the first day of November,'1926, during the usual hours of sale, 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, near* the Town of Blaney] and being a portion of what is known | as the Ross lands, containing two and | two tenths (2.2) acres, more or less, and being designated as tract 81 on | a plat <of S. W. Laughlin, Surveyor, of datt March 6th, 1919, being recorded in the office of the Olerk of j Court for Kershaw Cpuntv in Plat] Book 6. page 106. The said tract is | bounded on *the North by tracts 6, 7, | and 8, as shown on said plat and by | roadway, on the^East by tract No. 82, j this day cohveyed to John L. Kirkland, j Jr., on the South by roadway and by ] lot No. 32; and on the ^West by tracts Nos. 6, 7, and 8. The described tract | of land is the same conveyed to me by j deed of T. M. Keith of date October 19, 1919." Any one desiring to bid at said J sale, other than thp plaintiff herein,] shall first deposit with the Master as I an" evidence of jfood faith, cash, or ] certified check in. the sum fflrXtftjB dollars ($60.00), any amount so de- j Eosited by an unsuccessful bidder to j d returned at the conclusion of said I sale. R. tt. HILTON, _ v: Master Kershaw County. H^HDct.|t4, 1926. Wj MASTER'S SALE State of South--OaroHna,??? . -'-County of Kershaw. ! David H. Baum, Plaintiff, r- ?? -against ?? ? r?] R. E. Boykin, al., Defendant. ] Under and pursuant to an order of] Court herein made and dated 23rd | diy of June, 1926, I will sell toifthe4 highest bidder at public;^ucttoh,, far catsh;?before?the Kershaw County | Court House door, Camden, Si C., on] the first Monday, being the first day eff November, 1926,,the following de-| scribed real estate: * !.'A tract of land situate in Kershaw County, State aforesaid, and contain-] ing 60 acres. Bounded on the North] by lands of T. P. Sanders; East by] lands of Dr. C. P. Osteon; South by ] lands of Doc Shannon; West by lands of Berry Thomas and Doc Shannon.] The same being a part of the Allen | Boykin lands, conveyed to the said [ T. P. Sanders by Pelser; Rodgers & | Company, of Charleston^ -S. C." ? Any person desiring to bid at said] sale, except the plaintiff herein, shall ] first deposit with the Master the sum | of-one hundred dollars ($100.00) in] cash or by certified check for a like] sum, as evidence of good faith. | R. H. HILTON, j Master KershaW County. | | Oct. 14, 1926. _ I PUNO TUNING I LEWIS L. MOORE ] ! 1 ' ?- II All Work Guaranteed]] ?' * 1 1 vii II Telephone 242-W j r- Camden, South Caroli^; 1 I ~ I The man with money saved and in the gB I hank is in much better shape to grapple I I with hard luck than the man who has I I spent all of his substance in days when he I I thought he would always have good luck. I I CAPITAL $100m00 I <1 4T?er.CentPaidoaJSftving?JPeposits I % m *4-1- **4 ' ' * v y* v ' y A ' "S Faulty Elimination Should Be Corrected- Good Elimination It Btuntial to Good Health. ? t IF you would be well, see to your elimination. Faulty kidney action permit*, toxic material to re- , main in the blood end dpeet the i whole eyetem. Then# one 1* apt to have a tired, languid feeling and, eomet imee, a toxic backache or headache, and often some Irregularity of secretion?, euch ae ?canty or burn* " ing passage?. More and more people are acclaiming the value of Domn'm Pillt, a stimulant diuretic, in this condition. For more than forty year? Doen'e have Jt>een winning favor the country over. Aak your neighbor! DOAN'S # Stimulant Diuretic to the Kidneys F<*t?r-MUbum Co.. Mfg. Chem,, Buffalo. N. Y. Thoa. Mott Osborne Dead. Auburn, N. Y., Oct, 21.?Thoa Mott Osborne, 68, noted for his activities in prison'reform, is dead. Stricken on the street by heart disease last night, he was identified at an v M undertaker's through a little metal check with the name "Tom Brown" engraved upon it, which Mr. Osborne received when he voluntarily entered Auburn prison as a prisoner to study. the actual life of convjcts. ]['$> His experience at Auburn suggested many reforms, some of which he had an opportunity to put into effect as warden of Sing Sing prison and later at the naval prison At Portsmouth, N. I!., of which he had charge rduring the war. An independent democrat in 'politics/ he served as mayor of Auburn, and was once candidate for lieutenant governor. He was for many years owner- and publisher of The Auburn Citizen. Candidate for Failroad Commissioner . Sappy formerly of Lancaster county, who is"now residing in Columbia, was in the city Wednesday itrthe ^ifll interest of his candidacy for railroad ,-23 commissioner to succeed John G. Richards, who will retire as a mem- ..../ b(er of the railroad commission when 4te take*, the .governor's office. It is understood that Senator J. E. Beam guard of York is also a candidate.? Lancaster News. Met With Dr. Turner \~ Dr, W. B. Turner was host to the Kershaw County Medical Association at his home on last Wedhesday hight,^ The members of the association pres-. ;'^!! ent and partaking of the doctor's Hospitality were: Doctors John W. ^ Corbett, W. R,- Clyburn, C. A. West, '* ' A% W. Humphries and. S. C. Zemp, of .CAnifdfniJlQl:Cr, -la^TLjQTegory I and Dr. J. R. Belk, of Kershaw, were social guests?-Kershaw Era. ' ' ' v AAA ? % ? Aifti J I Pains | ; 1 disappeared I j i I "gEVERAL years ago I was I I i <M badly run-down," say? Mrs. I TO John Bunch, R. F. D. 8, Colum- if i . TO bin, 8. C. "I could not do any 1] I e? of my work. I was so weak I 1 . TO could not wash a dish. My back 11 i 'TO and sides hurt me at times TO TO ^dragged around |y IH Then, explains Mrs. Bunch, Bj?i to ^d^p^enod^.re^ni^1^ R TO trlal? the results of which aho K TO describes below: < ;) #. TO H "It seemed to reach the H TO cause of my trouble at once. I TO I <hd not take it long before TO Jfl my appetite began to toprbve. I H pounds until now I weigh 128 K M P?undfl- 1 eoon was able to be TO TO up around the bouse, I took Wk TO up my household duties and TO TO was delighted with my return- TO TO strength. B TO "I do all my own work. TO TO The pains in my sides and TO TO hdck have disappeared and I TO TO fe?1 ^e a different person." ' TO TO Cardtii has been helping suf- R TO fctln# WOtoSfi for nearly 50 TO H years. Sold by Ml druggists. TO |CARDUl| fTORTOTOTOTOTOTOMHMi COLUMBIA LUMBER & I MAHUFACTURIHC C0.-I. ' MILL WORK . 6 SASH, DOORS, BLINDS ? AND LUMBER | fLAO, A HUFJl STS. rh<*M 71