The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, December 10, 1926, Image 3
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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,
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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. The gov--'
ernor at once increased the reward
offered for his recapture from $250
to $500.
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