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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE r.rNU*. Editor and PublUhor Published every Friday at fto. 1109 Broad Street and entered at tb* Cam den, South Carolina, poatoflU* aa second class mail matter. Price per annum 92.00. (amdcfi, S. ('., hriday, July 29, 1927. mr jucy 1927 MUm. tea. Ws4 j TW IS4 I*. WW W W WT 2 3 4 * 6 7 *9 10 II 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 111 Ul I ) g Figures given out by the postoffice department at Camden shows that the mail order and out-of-town merchants find Camden and i?vf^? diau; territory a fertile field in which to trade. The report shows that during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927 a tota) of 17,412 money orders v^ere issued, representing the huge amount of 9180,624.66 going out of this territory?some <^f it and the greater part of it never to return. Postal receipts, consisting of sale of stamps and box rents amounted to $22,748. 1 7. Fee* collected for money orders \ issued, $1,418.49. Total amount of paid orders, $&6,475.84. Total number of orders paid, 6,113. Total number of C. O. I), parcels mailed at Camden 182. Total number of C. O. I) parcels received for delivery 8,347. Total number of parcels insured by postoffice at Camdeh 8,272. Total number of registers forwarded by Camden office 3,904. Camden and Kershaw County has been called upon within the past week to mourn the passing of two of its most excellent young men?taken in the prime of life?George A. Rhame and Ben Wiley Gettys. Both were high-toned, honest and industrious citizens?both leading such lives that everyone was their friend. The sanity test ordered by Judge M. M. Mann in the case of McKinley Thoniasson, the negro brute under sentence of death for the brutal slaying of an aged white woman of York county, has greatly enragekl the friends and relatives of the murdered woman in the Filbert community, according to the Yorkville Enquirer. And they have a right to be ini ensed at the attempted delay of the txecution. Another heinous crime of this sort happening in York will not j likely moot with the same respect for the law as was manifested in the | Thomasson case, should this negro stupe the electric chair. This maud-' 1th sympathy f??t convicted prisoners' and the free u*e of the pardoning P<%vcr is what i* causing so much1 < rime to be rampant in this state today. I A comparative report of the bu-I reau of vital statistics yf the South t'arobnn State Hoard of Health for the first five month* of 192b and 1927, reveals that during these two five month period-, there wen* laT lam. :d< s in South Carolina?99 in < '9 7 and KH in 192(5. This report also shows that in the same two pgi ;< <!* there were no legal electro< u! ion*. j .'j'lge T S. Sense, presiding judge, in Spartanburg on Monday, review | ing a case appealed from the decision i f Leroy Moore, master in equity of j Spartanburg county, confirmed the decision of Mr. Moore, and held that an insane person apparently sane, j i* to be held responsible for his acta. A negro, one John Pinckney Grav,! admittedly a lunatic, in March 192C,' gave notes aggregating $165 secured by mortgages. When the notes became due Gray <lenr?U"' ed. seeking! to hide behind the fact that he had been declared a lunatic as far back as July, 1926. The master held after u hearing, that if it could be shown that Gray noted as a normal man would act, so far as his mental con-! dition was-Concerned, at the time he signed the mortgage, then in that event he should be held responsible for his acts at that time. Shipments of peaches from the Sandhill section, of North Caroliaa have thus far this year exceeded 1, 200 cars. N. C. ARNETT R E A I, ESTATE Loan and Savings Bank Building OL'R SERVICE INCLUDES A CANDID PRESENTATION OF OUR LISTINGS AND UNTIRING EFFORT TO SUPPLY . YOUR NEEDS Life Far Hwindlrr A life sentence for cashing u bogus check for only $300 see ins to be ! drastic punishment, but that was the penalty asaeaM-d ag-ainst Bert N. Gastin, former newspaper man, in N*w York a few day* ago. J This sentence was imposed under a provision of New York State's Haunie* ia W, which makes life imprisonment mandatory in*the case of a person convicted ot a felony for the fourth time. The prosecution is said to have established that this was Gar* km'* fourth conviction on such a charge.' The life sentence was in^posed in (spite of a recommendation for clemency, on the part of the jury which convicted him, and the appeals of a number of friends, who testified t? his honesty in dealings with them during the lust five years. Garotin had been pardorWbd from the Maryland penitentiary in 1914, and since that time had become business manager of the lyouisville Herald-iPost. It is said that the stern provisions of the Haumes law have materially reduced crime in that state since it became effective a year ago, and several other states are forming new laws along the same line.?Lancaster News. When Fish Abounded One hundred years ago, and even less, shad were caught in Salddu river in Greenwood county. The building of mills along the river and on streams in general with the dams which prevented fish from coming up stream caused much excitement and indignation among fishermen. The I legislature was induced to pass a law prior to 1824 requiring all builders of dams to have a "sluice-way" for the fish to come up-stream. But no dams were built that way and in 1824 a body of men, about twent>?in number, from Abbeville and Laurens districts, got together and went down Saluda river to make sluice-ways where there were none in dams on the river. The owners of the dams promptly closed the openings up and that was the end of it. Allowing dams to be built and allowing smaller streams to become clogged with trees, stumps and what not have all played havoc with the fish. It is against the law now to allow a stream through your land to become clogged with trees, and so on, but it is a dead letter. No one pays any attention to the law. And so this is why we have pracI llcaUy nothing in the way of fish in our streams except the cat and a feweels with now and then a carp. But with a very little expense and very little trouble one may have a pond of fresh water and have it stocked with most excellent fish. I he good government will give you the fish free to start with hut it will "ot huild the pond nor will it feed the fish for you. 1 hat is the only real drawback to proposition: You have to build pond and have to feed the fish? an 1 one other, you have to catch the I *' when you want fish for dinner. '' nmy turii out that the good gov-' ' it me n i will furnish them fried and f,om a Federal cafeteria some n.a;, hut just now there is nothing of the sort in prospect. But if vou are wiling to huild the pond and feed the fi.<n and catch them, you can have a* fme fi-h as ever graced the waters of ths or any other country. ?Greenwood Index-Journal. A I'nique Town There stands on the Mississippi delta today a thriving little town of ^.KOO inhabitants within the bounds | of which there can be no racial problems, as every member of the population is a negro. Tuesday it celebrated the fortieth anniversary of its founding by Isaac T. Montgomery, a former sjave> tQ . efferson Davis, President of the Confederacy. Negroes from all over1 the state gathered for a picnic- a series of speeches, and an intelligent1 | discussion of farming problems. | Says the Montgomery Advertiser: Mound Bayou, formed in 1887 with 16 families, has grown to a thriving ! municipality in which modern buildings abound. The idea of such a community is credited to Jefferson Ihivis. and residents of Mound Bayou say the plan tends to promote beti ter relations between the two laces, i ' Negroes conduct all the business ou.ncs. l.a\e their own newspaper and telephone exchange and carbon extensive trade with other towns No wh.teperson lives within its limit*, but when a white visito? comes hd is treated cordially and provided a special dining room at the hotel." Reports from that section of the country have it that no trouble ever arises in the little town and that the white population nearby is heartily to, favor of such an arrangement. ci haps it is a good plan, at least one .example seftna to p int to sue!..?Spartanburg Heruhi. | THIS WEEK By Artlwr BrfaU? ?4. Mr. Brisbane'* editorial* are published a* expressions of opinions of the world'* hifhe stasia Had editor and The Cbronicla does not necessarily andoraa all of kia views and conclusion*. If you have $81.16 in your pocket you have twice as much cash ?a the average. The Treasury tells u* that money circulating July 1 amounted to "only" four billion eight hundred and thirty-four millions, one haundred millions less than last year, $40.68 for each inhabitant. The r^al wealth is credit. Four men in the United States, Rockefeller, Ford, Andrew Mellon and George f. Baker, could with ease, borrow more money than all the cash that is in circulation. Long ago Queen Elisabeth ga,ve a ring, ii^r face engaged upon a atone pet in it to her lover, the Earl of Essex. No matter what he did, he would be forgiven if he returned that ring. ^ Accused of saying that Queen Elizabeth's mind was as crooked as her body, which was probably true, she was a great queen and a hard woman, he failed to return the ring and his head was chopped off. 1 he Countess of Nottingham ^yjng, confessed that she failed to deiiv^' to the Queen the ring that Essex gave her. Elizabeth, in despair, spent her time sitting on the floor weeping,, and died at the end of twenty days. That's the story. Now the ring is sold at auction for $2,700. It has dropped in value. Elizabeth would have given $1 000 000 for it. Bobby Jones, golf wizard from Atlanta, Ga., defending his open golf champion title, made the first round of eighteen holes in 08 strokes, five under "par." The secret in golf is control of' head and nerves. In the air, fly. j ing, or on the grass, playing golf, young Americans seem able to do that. A well-meaning politician suggests a law admitting children to all ha se ha 11 parks for twenty-five cents per child. A better law would supply city baseball parks in which children could play baseball. TlVat iis what they need, not the right to sit on a bench, paying twenty-five cents to watch somebody else play. If young und old men of this generation played MORE, and watched LESS, it would be better for them. British scientists use moving pictures in war against cancer. The camera records cancer growths, slowly, for two days Then the film s -needed up, nine hundred and sixty, times, and scientists see cancer ceils u tuall\^ glowing. That's important. Man can outrun a horse in time. ; An Irishman, afterward elected May| or of Long Island City, ran more than , 600 miles in six days. But, in water, man is literally "a poor fish," a most interior fish. Edward Keating finished first last week over a 24-mile fresh water course in 18 hours 47 minutes. In that time a shark could swim half way across the Atlantic. 'Miss Constance Talmadge, excellent moving picture actress, requesting a divorce, says of her husband: He is the nicest man, but I am out of love." , Out of love" is modern, typical I of our day. Strict logic might confirm the view that if you marry when , 'in love." There are other considerations, however, that still influence manv. i i Otto Koennecke. German fljer prepares for his trip from Berlin to' j ban Francisco, with interesting care. Every part of his motor was being I A-rayed yesterday in search of de( feet* in the metal. Old statues show goddesses with three eyes, one in th? forehead. Science has given to men a real third eye. the X-Rav. that looks through solid metal, and we he:dly appreciate it. A bomb was exploded nt.the statue of George Washington in Buenos Aires. Argentina, Friday night It is supposed that the explosion w*s due to sympathizers of Sacco and - > anzetti under sentence of death In Massachusetts, which' has become of ^international interest. It was later that the bomb ixp'.oded was >Qt j a protest. Found Lmm? at Mothcf'i Knee J A simple and beautiful incident in the life of Henry W. Grady, one of the South'* greatest men, is that, after he had become nationally known for his intellect and magnanimity. he made the discovery that, as he himself put it, "something bad gone out of his life." He had gainoil fame and honor ahd distinction, | but he hod lost something and he missed it. The loss created a vacuum, an emptiness that hurt. Abandoning business cares and responsibilities for the tune, he returned to the littlv cabin home, and to his old mother. One night after supper he rather surprised his mother by saying, after a long silence "Mother, 1 want you to sing the good old songs you used to sing to me when you rocked me to sleep." The dear old woman complied, crooning softly those in/mortal Southern melodies and the good old hymns that good old mothers sing in the good old way. After she had sung those sweetly and softly for a time, Henry Grady said: "Now, mother, before we retire I want to kneel with head on your lap and say my prayers, like I used to do right here in this room." At_Jii? mother's knee, with her thin withered hand on his head this statesman, this man of affairs, repeated as he used to do when a small boy, "Now I lay me down to sleep." When he had finished the four simple lines he arose and said to his mother: "Out in the busy world of busy people, with cares and responsibilities and big issues, I discovered that I had lost something, and I felt sure that here at home, with you I could find it. And I've found it. I was about to be blindfolded a little by the pomp and ceremony of temporary things and was in danger of detaching myself from the simpler but bigger things. I've found what I was about to lose, and I'm happy once more."?Lancaster News. We Don't Make The News Some things have been published in The Exchange lately that we should have liked to leave out. But a newspaper does not make' the news. It only records facts and events and happenings in the community which it serves, and it is the duty of a real newspaper to record these things with an absolute impartiality whether the? be good or bad. If humanly possible , we might wish that never would it be necessary to publish some things. In I particular the details of crime and untoward incidents and events that n j community is immune to. A newspaper only reflects the life of a community. It is a sort of mirror into which we can look and see ourselves, our life, and the things good and bad that go to make up life and to occupy the time and the minds of folks. If a newspaper draws a line on certain kinds of news, how then we might ask, is the public to know j what is going on? And it is important that we know the things that are occuring, whether good or bad. If they are had it should spur the moral forces on to renewed activity against evil. If they are good they are constructive and heljfful. If we as a community choose to shut our eyes and our ears to the evil that is about us, if the newspaper is to put the ban on this sort of news, then we may conceivably walk in the mud and mire without knowing it. Turn on the light which reveals true conditions. In this way we can take an inventory of good and evil. It is a newspaper's business to publish the news. It is the business of good people in a community to see that the necessity for publishing untoward news may be reduced to a minimum. A knowledge of the facts may help matters, and it certainly can do but little injury.?-Laurinburg Exchange. The Columbia State, whjch long has held the lead in newspaper circulation in South Carolina now drops to second place, being topped by the Greenville News. the Charlotte- Observer claims the largest circulation of any newspaper published in either of the Carolinas. The circulation figures furnished by Editor and Publisher in Its issue of July 16th and sworn to, are of interest: Charlotte Observer, 40.092; Raleigh News and Observer, 37,309; Oreenville News, 24,124; Columbia State, 23,096; Winrfton-Aalem Journal 18.688; Ashevilie Citizen, 16,261; Charleston Post, 15,804; Durham Herald 18,057.?YorkVille Enquirer. ' i After Aisla G.. Saab toad atoot a constable on board a trolley <T*r iftar' LoweU, Mass., Tuesday, the car motorman, John J. Powell, knocked Saab down with his switch atkk, took a pair of handcuffs out of the constable's pockets, locked the prisoner to the car fittings and took into .he city and turned him oitt to the police. The consffeble dj'ed in less than an Uur after being shot by Saab. How To Got Ahead A Gaffney banker telU the Gaffney ladgiir of a couple of pleasant experience# he recently had with Ghorokee county farmers who were carrying notea at his institution. Last fill oo? of those farmers gave a note Tor T12?, and a few days ago he dropped into the bank and said he came to see about if. The banker picked up a blank note, assuming that the patron wanted the paper renewed. But to his astonishment the farmer paid the note off In full. He was asked where he 'got the money at this time of year to liquidate such obligations and his reply was: "By selling milk and butter." His cotton crop of last year proving a failure, like that of the other cotton raisers of this section, be switched to dairying on a limited but profitable scale. The second case was that of a farmer who was unable to meet a 170 installment on a Federal Land bank loan the first day of last December, but who came in the hank and wrote a check in full for that I amount a few days ago. When asked where the money came from his reply was: "I made the money selling beans, cantaloupes and roasting ears." These two instances led this Cherokee county banker to comment as follows according to the Ledger's news story: These two examples show conclusively that the man who does not depend entirely on cotton is bhe best ?!f: Per8ona,,y? I belieVe the man living in the country has a splendid opportunity to make money out of chickens?selling egg?, friers, hens and roosters. It can't be done in town, but in the country where a man can# produce his own feed and let his chickens range he can make a profit out of poultry."?Spartanburg Journal. ??_ I One never finds a statesman in office in South Carolia?they are too proud to run around the s^te on {^l-fours, begging for voters. We invariably elect men unfitted for office?and that is what ails us.? Says The Marion Star. The biggest locomotive ever built by the Brooks plant of the American Locomotive Works, at Dunkirk, N. Y., ran wild on the main line of the New York Central railroad Tuesday, after the engineer could not shut off the 8team as the engine was being tested. The big locomotive jumped the track after running half a mile, just a fittie ways from the passenger station at Dunkirk. Two of the engine crew Lewis F. Randall, former post-i ma?tei of Hialeah, Fla., wanted for embezzlement of post office funds has been arrested in Los Angeles! aj. Randall got away with $52,000 in money orders. He was first arrested in Florida but jumped a bail. bond of $25,000. The trunk of a single walunt tree six feet in diameter, grown in Kentucky, recently sold for $625. Anawera?3 1?4.'? :GS. 2 Michigan and Northwestern tied | ^ 3 An earthquake Is a stinking of part of rlie piirih's rrlist due to natural subterranean causes 4 A dynamo converts mechunlcaf energy Into electrical energy, whtle a motor en,,* ens elect i leal energy into mechanical energy. 5? 1 fVtit 6?? I in i lac 7?-Mozart H- I 'la t en u of Tibet. j ?Laurence Sterne. SHirutin of Pershing's j 1 Wants-For Sale j . Zemp, Camden. S. C. T8p? CURTA INS " 8T RBTClTFrCrrr^^ wishing curtains stretched Jlsai* apply at 904 Campbell Stee.t Prices reasonable. 8-tf 'PROMW ;DEUVER|J BB IT hk; ok nrriu I ? no matter how large or order for building mat< >u?U ??jB ready to supply your uqairs^K1 promptly and carefully. der may be f6r building for a big building or it ?iay order for some little m 1)ajr that you are doing^ Each %iij J ceive our immediate and cud attention. > jB; ^ 'X* B ' THE BARRETT HI lbbiN(J I MATERIAL COMPANY I Hia Gaees City Visitor Why do bbj? the farm ? Discouraged Farmer- Becaueei can't race trains to a crossing mowing machine, I > ret kon.-^^B nati Enquirer. WANTED?An experienced* take down two Llndell cotton one double box press and condea^l Also want man with large move one 35 horsepower ker^H engine for a distance 0f fourty miles. 'Apply to ?*;' Truesdale, postoffice uddpefitlB ville, S. C., shipping point DiB L08T?One brindled colored cov^E ' small white spots and st*r jfl face. With horns. Lost frw^H pasture near the Watereel I Suitable reward. CKORM I LITTLE, Cafhdett, S. C. IT IS the I money spent in yourB I town that gives your prpjl^H greater value and protects it^H Electric Maid Bake Shop. * dB FOR RENT?Office in Loan A ings Bank Building, rates vsry rttl sonable; no hea? lights or jsnitor'M billa to pay. Apply <N. C. Arnett*' Agent, Camden, S. C. , lS-tf CANN ING?The canning season jE now on. Don't throw away yotiV surplus fruit or vegetables. L<B us can them for you for a nominB' sum. Telephone 325 W, WintiB^ green Cannery, B. H. Baum, M?iB ger,Camden, S. C. 16-ljk^E for"SHOE RETPATRI^G^ailat^B Red Boot, Shop next door to BB press oftfce. A- M. JONES, Pt|^| CARP EN TERIN G- -For any' kindjjS carpenter work see John S. MysflB at 812 Church Street, or phs* 268. I will be glad to serve public. All work will be promptly and guaranteed irjB workmanship. I specialisetohoiu^B building. 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