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? ?., ... Ill ' Death at Bethune Mrs. Carolina Marshall of Bethune died suddenly' about 11 o'clock following an attack of influenza and heart failure, Shfc* has been in feeble health for several years, bu.t it was not thought that Hfer condition was serious. Mrs. Marshall was the widow* of the late Wiley S. Marshall, an old Confederate soldier and a well known farmer of. the community. She was about 8^ years of age and is survived by one daughter, Mrs. G. S. ("atoo of Bethune, a number of grandchildren and other relatives. She was a member of the Baptist church and wa< respected by those who knew her. The funeral services and interment wire held at Pleasant Hill Baptist . burch.?Lancaster News. ? On receiving news of the acquittal < :' Mrs. Hall and the two Stevens -luoihers at Somerville, -Mrs. Jane Gibson, in a Jerhey City, N. J., hospital, exclaimed, "Acquitted! . Well, can you beat it?" Mrs..Gibson's condition is critical, according to hospital physicians. ?vTTninu AND HI8 GIJNH Homtthlng of Hi, |?vr?t|ona and I!in Modesty A new and improved gun had a great deal to do with enabling Prussia U> make short work of Austria in the war of 1800, which paved the way for the struggle with France that was to result in the proclamation of Bismarck's German Empire, says the New York Evening Telegram. When America went into the great war she was fortunate in having in the lute J. M. Browning u genius of the highest order whose machine rifle and machine gun met all the needs of the hour. Yet it was only after hundreds of rigorous tests that General Crozier and his associates in the Army Ordnance Department were satisfied that the Browning weapons represented the very last word in such arms, even the famous Lewis gun, also the work of an American, being of an earlier type. In pioposing the thanks of congress and a medal to the gunmaker Senator Smoot called attention to the fact that although Browning was the greatest inventor of firearms in the history of the craft, he was so modest that none of the dozens of guns he invented ever carried his name until he finally perfected what was believed to be the finest automatic rifle and the finest heavy machine gun in the world. Various kinds of machine guns used by the French, British and Italians were available to this government at the time, but, working day and night with the assistance of experts lent by the army, Browning had his weapons ready for the official trials in less than three months after the United States declared war. An official report had this to s5y on the subject: i ^The so-called Browning light gun, really an automatic rifle, is little heavier than a rifle and can be carried by one man with the greatest ease and fired from the shouldc, hip or from a prone position, giving little more recoil than the ordinary army rifle. Its great value lies in the fact that chamber after chamber of ammunition can be emptied as fast as the magazines can be changed on the gun. Its use in offensive warfare . . . makes it the most valuable weapon, all things considered, of any weapon used in the European war, from long range guns down to trench knives." The heavy Browning gun proved to be almost as much of a marvel, doing away as it did with the water cooling system that makes most machines of the sort hard to handle. Unlike most men of scientific imagination, Browning from his earliest days was Successful, not only in his inventions, but in placing them where they would do the most good or harm. Last Friday was the coldest December third recorded in 'Philadelphia in forty years. -? Three men and one daughter of a 3ingle family' all got marriage licenses in Philadelphia at the same time last Friday. The four were to be mdrried in a single week. Sir Alan and Lady Cobham of England are visiting in the United State3. Sir Cobham recently completed a flying journey of 28,000 miles to Melbourne, Australia and return to London. ; The United States annually expends $4,700,000 in looking up misdirected mail. NOTICE TO DELINQUENTS > As I Am going out of office around January 1st, it is Very necessary that all uncollected tax executions now in my hands be paid At once. The time for collecting same . has now passed and those desiring to save additional costs can do so by calling At the sheriff's office and; paying same by December 7th. I desire to turn the office over to my successor wit$* all executions settled; If not paid by December 7th* $11 property that we have executions against will be advertised for the first Monday Very respectfully, G. C. WELSH, Sheriff. FINAL DISCHARGE Notice is hereby given that one month from this date, on Tuesday, January 4th, 1927, I will make to the Probate Court of Kershaw County my .final.return as Administrator of the Tstate of N. L. Cassady, deceased, and on the same ,*Jate I will apply to the satd Court for a fiasl discharge as said Administrator. All parties, if any, having claims against the said estate will present them duly attested to the undersigned or or before th^date or be forever barred* A. B. McLAURIN, n i ?... nexnune,.o..u. Csmden, S. C-, Nov. 29, 1926.^ Written for The Chronicle Copyright, 1D26 Denmark. It is 0:30 in the forenoon and 1 uni sitting in a third-class compartment of a third-class train utr the picturesque little station at Ksbjerg waiting for my train to depart for Odor, a small town in the extreme northern end of Denmark. .It will be interesting to see Denmark through the window of a third-class coach because I will come in contact with the middle-classes?people I always find interesting. The coach ahead is filled to overflowing with children chattering like a flock of English sparrows. I ^presume it is a picnie party bound for a playground somewhere up the road. The youngsters are chaperoned by three severe looking dames of the spinster type und a pair of long-frocked, serious-looking, dignified* middleaged men who appear to be almost crushed by the heavy responsibility they have taken upon their shoulders. But despite these handicaps the spirit of adventure runs high" and the children are happy. I stopped, near their coach to ask a trainman a question and my English was so strange that the chattering ceased and the youngsters stared at me in silent awe. The Danish Railway Train. The American railway system, with the exception of Englai^l and Germany, is the finest in the world, but the farther north you travel in Europe the poorer becomes the railway service. The northern epd of Denmark is not so far from the Arctic Circle. It is so near the top of the earth that the mid-summer sun sets at 10 and rises at 3. Between these hours strong eyes can read a newspaper. The seasons are short but the long sunlight hours counterbalance the adverse effects that a cold climate would otherwise have on the growing crops. Denmark's railway system is very poor, but one would be agreeably surprised to find a modern railway system in a nation with a population of only 3,500,000 scattered over a territory not much larger than the state of New Hampshire. The locomot ives^-ere of the middle 18th century type. They are tiny affairs with driving wheels not more than four feet high. You could hide one of them in the tender of a modern American mogul. The smokestacks are conspicuously high and the headlights are held in position by brackets-located on both sides of the engine, just above the tracks. At night these queer looking little locomotives resemble automobiles bowling down a highway. The coaches are built on the same lines on which the English coaches are built, with entrances at the sides and ends, and the corridors Yunning down the sides at right angles to the compartments. The long wooden bench has no cushion, the springs on the trucks are stiff* and heavy and every few minutes the coach bounces up and down for all the world like a Ford with a flat tire. Getting one of these trains under way is an amusing study in psychology. ' Here, as in England, it requires the services of a dozen men to get a train away from the station. Long before the "hour of departure bells ring and whistles shriek. Everywhere in Europe the uniform is a badge of honor and distinction. The station master at the little city of Esbjerg would be taken anywhere for a brigadier general. He is a man of huge stature and the gorgeous uniform he wears with evident pride is resplendent in gold braid with epaulets so large that he almost staggers under their weight. He walks majestically to a queer looking:little box, glances at his Watch, tutns a lever and the train is off. In a few minutes we are bouncing along through meadows and valleys flanked by checkered fields of barley, wheat and oats, carrots, turnips and cabbage, ^"clpenmark Disappoints My first glimpse of rural Denmark is disappointing. I had heard and read so much about this little kingof the agricultural world that I expected to see gold dollars Clinging to field plants like bolls of cotton. When my train pass^ out of the thickly settled'trucking district Snear Esbjerg. I saw nohting but .patches, of spruce pines clinging to terraced hillsides. But the pines ran in regular rows and I sdon discovered that reforestation was an important phase of Danish fann life. Trees are planted to pre-1 vent washing. A federal law requires a person to plant a tree let every one | he cut, down. T> pr?|?. of wforl estation is continuous. When a tree reaches the age of 10 or 16 years it is cut down and used for firewood, but another tree must be planted in its place. Rain-washed lands are reclaimed by the simple process <rf terracing and reforesting. These lands ultimately become vory fertile and sell for fancy prices. From Esjberg to Aarhaus, almost half the length of, Denmark's western shore line, the railway is dotted with small towns of) from 600 to 4000 inhabitants, local?-d five or six miles apart, while between) these towns are found smafl clusters of farm settlements with houses backed end to end liko a covey of quail at roost. The physical appearance of the country differs very little from that of the average American farming community east of the Mississippi river. Neither is there much difference in the looks, manners and cus-1 toms of the people. Automobiles are scarce ami the trains are well patronized. The little-third-class train i on which 1 am traveling is patronized by the middle classes. Everybody seCms to know everybody else and conversation flows as smoothly as a mill-race down a hillside. In one compartment is a group composed of ] small-town merchants, professional men and farmers. They laugh and talk in an easy,, congenial manner. When conversation lulls they glance out of the window and I ^ancy that some remark about the weather revives the conversation. In another compartment is a group of middleaged and elderly women. The baskets: they carry indicate that some are goi)tg to and others are returning from the small-town markets. Here too is talk and laughter in an animated forftf. A lad is entertaining a group of young people with an accordion 1 and just befbre leaving the train at j his station he takes up a collection , among the passengers. Here is hap- (piness in the nth degree. Nobody . seems to be in a hurry. Everybody is taking life easy. Faces are radiant i and the very atmosphefe seems to be i surcharged with a spirit of happiness. ] It is because rural Denmark is pros- i perous. - j * Climate Affects Time-Piece My watch, which has been my faith- }' ful Ctwnpanion for 20 years, has taken > up habits which are causing me to 1 question TVs "reliability." While cross- 1 ing the North Sea it showed a ten- i dency to run away with itself and now i it is slowing down like a ,runner who has over-exerted himself on a racecourse. I am told that its delicate mechanism is influenced by the magnetic pole. Denmark is so near the! top of the world that if you do hot ; adjust your watch to what is known as Greenwich time your time-piece becomes lazy and functions indifferently. The farther north you travel, until you get within the Arctic Circle where you find the solid ice, the climate changes rapidly and this also affects the delicate mechanism of a watch. My watch is losing time at the rate of 20 minutes a week and so, instead of growing older, I am gaining 1,040 minutes a year on my allotted three score and ten. If I should j decide to remain here permanently and keep my watch adjusted to central American time I might live to be a hundred years old?In point of mechanical time. Otto Wood, notorious North Carolina bad man, m^de his escape from the state penitentiary a few weeks ago. Last week, through the Greenaboro Daily- News, through a letter written from Ohio, Wood offered to return to prison on condition that he be taken from under Superintendent Pou of the state 'prison. 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