The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, September 02, 1927, Image 6
Nobody'^ Business
Written lor The Chronicle by Ce?
McGee, Copyright. 11)27.
Camping Out
We made up our minds during the
month of July to go to the mountain#
on a week's vacation. After
finding out that the hotel rates at
most ordinary joint up there were
about three times too high, we began
to consider the matter of .camping
out. Some enemy of mine (as it
now appears) convinced my wife that
we could live for practically nothing
if we'd take a tent along and u few
cooking utinsils, and "rough it!"
Well, I hired a tent for a week for
H dollars, and early Thursday morn-j
ing, we begun to pack the things in
and on our old Ford to take with us. i
We (rammed the hack seat full of:
mattresses and tied 2 cot# onto the,
outside, and hung pans on each of:
the door handles, and then we load-!
ed everything we had in the house
and could buy down town, and when
we got thru?the old flivver looked
like a tt-rooin bungalow with awnings
ansoforth. The durn thing was so
full of junk we couldn't get in ourselves.
We unloaded and reloaded
and re-packed till about 5 o'clock that
afternoon, and then it was too late
to start, but we managed to "pull j
out" the next morning fairly early.
Our old car was so full of camp-l
stuff that it would expand and con-j
tract every time any of us got our
breath. We couldn't move a limb
or bat an eye we were so wedged
in the machine. We drove as fastas
we could, and made about 7 miles!
per hour, and landed at the campj
ground 102 miles from our home in;
exactly 13 hours and 23 minutes. It
was too dark to try to unload, sq we
went to a 2-dollar hotel- and paid 7
dollars apiece to spend the night and
eat some rations that were no better#
than we had been eating at home. j
We got back to the camping place I
selected about 7:30 the next morn-;
ing. It took us till 3:22 p. m. to un-,
load. We didn't fetch along any'
stobs to fasten the tent down with,!
and after a careful search?I dis-i
covered that we didn't have any'
thing at all suitable for camping pur-'
poses except 1 frying pan. I finallygot
the old tent up: ix looked like an
elephant that was trying to scratch
her hind leg with her snout. It had;
no form or comeliness. We adjusted
matters in and around our tent-home
as best we could and decided to cook
supper, and there wasn't a match in
2 miles of us, so we ate a box of salmon
and some toast we brou ght
along for the baby.
It begun to rain like the dickens
about 'J 11 p. m. ,1 didn't knpw anything
in the world except a sieve
ever had as many hole# in it a# odr
lent had. It leaked about twice the
amount of water that fell on top of
it, and vvf4*I good aixwd creek* rau
under the tent. We got soaked from
head to foot and back again. A little
j/uff of wind came ar;d blowed the
old tent down on u#, and almost scared
u# to death. I happened to find a
flash-light, and hashed it, ami the
I first thing I saw was a 2-foot snake
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in bed with me. Then I began to
travel. We got thru the nig*ht fairly
well by sleeping in the car, that is-if
you want to lie about it. We loaded
a few of the remain# of the "camp,
ing-out" equipment, and got home
Sunday morning in time for Sabbath
school Now, Jack I>empsey wouldn't
risk asking me to camp out in the
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mountains. If a guy calls that 3
vacation, then it is true that u mule
uster be an antlopc, just as iJarwin
said. The cost of that one night's
experience would have put us up at
the best hotel in N. ('., for nearly 2
months.
K-e-l-i-g-i-o-n
Religion of the right kind is what
makes folks happy and keeps them
happy. It affects different people in
different ways. Some shout, others
weep for joy, while iftill others get
hold of the kind that makes them
dance and prance around in a peculiar
manner I have never found any
fault with anybody's religion that
madg him or her a better man or
woman. I think our Maker knew so
much about the kind of humans we
would be. He made a religion to suit
everybody everywhere, and I feel
sure that all our different religions
are absolutely necessary for our
well-being. I can't believe that I
will go to hell because I am not a
Baptist or a Methodist or a Presbyterian,
nor will I enter the pearly
gates because I happen to be an A.
R. P.
But what I started out to talk
about was how people change in
looks and action^ and appearances
just a^s soon as they get in hollering
distance of a church. I don't think
over 10 percent of us go to church
with a sincere view of worship, but
we go l>ecause we happen to be
church members and because our
preacher expects us and because we
feel that maybe it is our duty to go,
or that it wouldn't look nice not to
g >, and in lots of cases ? it has become
a habit.
Now, take old sister Pinkerson.
She's always at church. At home and
<.n the streets, she's always cheerful
ar.d polite and agreeable, but just as
soon as she darkens the church door
her face becomes 2 feet long, and her
eyes veer neither to the right nor to
the left, end she sits in her pew so
straight you'd think she had a lightning
rod stuck down her back. ?She
sings every song, or rather tries to.
(Her voice is cracked in 4 or b different
places). She keep* her mouth
puckered up and her forehead is rollin
wrinkles. It must be mighty
hard on her to keep that kind of religion,
but that's her tyjx*.
Then there's Bro. Jones, he cusses
thru the week, drinks a little
when he can get it, then tells smutty
jokes when he can get anybody to
listen to them, but when he marches
down the aisle dignity immediately
fakes charge of him and he proceeds
to adjust himself to the surroundings
of the amen corner. lie drops
in his nickel with due regularity, but
that frown he wears incessantly dur-]
ing the services must be ? mighlly
hard to keep perched upon his face.
He seems to feel the "speerit" every
now and then, and a tear occasionally
trickles down his worn face.
Within the old frame there is a kind
and gentle heart, but it's purely a
Sunday heart so far as piety is concerned.
But he's always over it by
Monday morning, and he resumes
his place as one of the boys. It's
funny folks can't or won't act natural
at church, ain't it?
But it's different with me. When I
go to churoh, I leave my grouches at
home, and I am sure that I always
try to look pleasant and amile (except
when the collection plate is being
shoved under my nose). And
just as soon as the preacher takes
! is text, I go to sleep and leave it
with him. The song after the benediction
always wakes me up, and 1
am positive that going to church
helps me. Preaching has such a
soothing effect on my sensibilities.
What a Penny Will Do,
A penny will give you yritjKin 8
pounds of your actual weight if you
will drop it in one of these automatic
street weighing machines.
It will ease your conscience if
you will drop it into a collection
plate, that is?if you have a onecent
conscience.
It will pay for enough electric energy
to shock the lard out of you
when you are trying to fix the light
in the basement, and run a sewinj
I machine motor the balance of the
night.
It will pay for enough gas to fry
| one side of an egg with while your
toa.-t is burning up in the oven.
It will pay for a 1-cent postage
; stamp which, under the new high
rates recently promulgated by the
post office department, will carry a
letter an> where in the United State3
and many foreign countries, provid
EAR!. CARROIX FAVORED
H?th-(ub Entertainer Kemoved From
Prison To Finer on Honor Farm
'Atlanta, Ga., Aug 24.?Far from
the forbidding shadows of prison
walla, among iV'aceful purauita in
the opt*it aii, Karl Carroll now lb
permitted by law to took on the future
more hopeful mien from the confines
of the federal penitentiary honor
farm.
Announcement was made at the
prpitm tonighi that the New York
theatrical producer was transferred
to the farm August 1 to serve the remainder
of his sentence of a year
and a day for perjury growing out
of bis celebrated "bath tub" party.
There he has been assigned to duties
in connection with the daily schedules
of vocational pursuits, including
agricultural, carpentry, dairying and
other homely arts.
The honor farm, two miles from
the gray pile of the prison, is the
favored goal of prisoners, because
it not only brings release to trusted
status outside the walls but is
a special reward for meritorious
conduct and carries certain privileges
that remain at the option, of
the parole board?which meets next
September 8.
Because ol the ruling, which
I stipulates that one-third of a sentence
must be served, Carroll is not .
eligible for parole until October 8,
but the parole board, at its own
discretion, may take action on
Carroll's case prior to the expiration
of his compulsory term.
I It also is within the power of the
board, penitentiary officials say, to
report that prisoners at the honor
farm be given five days off of their
sentence for each 30 days they spend
their for good behavior. The option
makes it possible that Carroll could
be released October 1.
Carroll entered the prison June 8
after suffering a nervious collapse
en route from New York, which kept
him in a Greenville, (S. C.) hospital
for several weeks. He was brought
to the prison on a stretcher, being
confined to the institution hospital
for a month after his arrival. Upon
his discharge as a prison "runner."
His physical and mental condition has
shown a remarkable improvement,
prison officials said.
George Washington, a great lover
of fish, refused to eat a shad that
cost three dollars because he did not
want it said that his table, as President,
set an example of luxury and
extravagance.
The body of the late Elbert H.
Gary, chairman of the board of the
United States steel company, who
died in New York, Monday, was conveyed
by a special train Tuesday
from New York to Wheaton, 111., for
interment near his birthplace.
The city playgrounds of Wheeling,
W. Ya., have been ordered closed by
the health authorities, because of the
prevalence of infantile paralysis in
that city. The grounds ai*e closed
only to children under 15 years -*f
age.
The principal of the Junior High
School in Marion, Ohio, in order tcv
avoid the necessity of turning from
room to room when he wishes to make
an announcement, has had the entire
building wired and equipped with loud
speakers.
F. Crtigh Nelson, wealthy Seattle,
Wash., clubman, and E. Amory Bell,
skipper on Nelson's yach'., have been
formally indicted in connection with
the death of Miss Violet Payne, who
was supposedly drowned some weeks
ago while on a liquor party on the
yacht.
ed, of course, you attach another 1cent
stamp by its side.
It will buy an all-day sucker for a
kid who stacks it long enough to
ru.n a 5-dollar dress, and the dispo/ion
of a perfectly g^od mother.
It v\ ill finish paying for a nickel's
worth of ice-cream since the last few
legislatures of this fair Southland of
ours met and adjourried, and it -is
thereafter called 'Hax,"^ which helps
to promote education, detours, graft,
and incidental expenses.
It will prevent a man from going
broke if kept in his possession, so
far as actual cash is concerned, and
will also pay for a quarter of a cent's
worth of calomel tablets.
! It will make a fortune for the average
slot machine manufacturer, and
when properly slotted?it will cause
a little piece of chocolate candy to
spring out that has not had fLQVm*
it it more than 5 months*
It will help another penny fo rattle
in your pocket, and thus raise the
respect you are possibly entitled to
everywhere except in your home
town, and then there are many other
things the lowly penny will do, but
on account of space, I will not attempt
to inform you further,"but its
piincipal wo0c up to this time has
been that of Christianising th?
heathen. v.. *
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SKA MYSTERY EN|>S
B?dy of Ket*r?*l Army Colonel Found
*?y Now England Fisherman
Hosion, Anqf; 2 |.~A atrange story,
? . , b"nal o1 ?n old retired army
colonel by two fishermen alone in
duil*"i on the tossing waves,
earn? out of the sea today when the
awordnshing schooner B. F. Hillman
returned from its two-week trip about
the harbor.
Charles Frichard was the fisherman
who related the details of the
burial at sea to the police this afternoon.
ihe body, which was later discovered
to be that of Col. William
Porter Stone of New York, wiw
found floating by Pritchard about
twenty miles west of the Nantucket
light-ship early in the afternoon
of August 11, just after the
Hillman had sailed out from Edgut
town, Matha's vineyard.
Col. Stone was drowned on Sunday
afternoon, July 31, When .he
jumped overboard from the Cunarder
Tuscania as it neared the Nantucket
light-ship on its trip from
Paris to New York. Though the
steamship circled the spot where the
colonel jumped no trace of his body
was found. The colonel's act was attributed
to despondency over the
death of his wife, who had died in
. and whose body he was bringing
back to this country on the Tuscania.
Until it was learned that Col.
Stone had actually jumped over_
board, Boston police feared that he
may have been the victim of rob-,
era- There was no money in his!
othes and no nuwks 0f any kind
except a brown alligator bill fold
With cards that mitfe known his
identity.
Pritchard saw the body floating
ace down m the water and calling.
o a fellow fisherman, George
1 homas of Edgartown, who was'
fishing from his Dory half a mile1
away. ,
The two men succeeded in draw-f
ing the body between their two
dories and going through the pock-"
ets to learn its identity. j
The body was badly decomposed
and the fishermen decided to weight
it down, with rocks that they had
in their dories and bury it at the!
spot where it was found. There was
no ceremony, as the burial took
knelt' K v, P.nt1chard and Thomas
knelt bareheaded as the body disappeared
from sight.
. jhf yUiting cards found in the
fold gave address in New York.
There was also a specimen signature
card signed by Martha Stone
and a baggage receipt from the
Cunard Steamship Company given 1
on the boat Tuscania, marked Paris,
to New York, June 25, 1927. The
only other thing in the fold was
a postal card addressed to the finance
officer of the United States Army,
Washington, D. C., regarding disposition
of retirement pay. 1
Col. Stone was a well-known army
volunteering for service in
the World War after he had gradu,1/r"
W?t Point in 1880 and
the Artillery School in 188(J. He
re.ie thirty years, and was retired
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ADVENTI8T8 IN ANNUAL
Strict Fundamentalist* Wig ifl
disapproval of Blue
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Charlotte, Aug. 24. -SeveatkJ
Adventists from many gec^^S
the two Carolina# are assembli*?
this city for their annual confafl
and camp meeting, which oiB
yesterday, to continue through^!
to tuber 4. I /
Leading ministers fro? J :,,
general headquarters of th* M
mination *t W^ahiijgton,
from the Southeastern Uniu(H
fe rence headquarters at
nooga, Tenn., ,are expected ?
a prominent part in th# Md:.
The Rev. C. K. Ueyed^^^B
of the General Confere|^3if:j'
also secretary of the ForiAnHy.^
board, will tell of the eJB
sionary operations of thf^K^i';
tion. Mr. Meyers is, J^rH^!!;^||||:
tary of the largest misaionJl j
merit in the world. The lalfl
lished statistics (1^25)
Seventh-day Adventists are qBp
ing missionary operations iSt;
countries, using 252 language*
dialects, and publishing Chr^f
literature in 122 languages aniH
The denomination claims to bfl
hundred per cent fundamen^J
hence are carrying on a very ifl
campaign against Modernism.
also believe -and teach the An^l
principle of separation of
and State. They claim that^f
present "Blue Law" moverogM
purely religious legislation,
such is contrary to our 1|^B
Constitution, also to the tead^H
Christ. Definite action will dooiBj
be taken at this meeting, voicio^l
denomination's disapproval of
ligious legislation including the*^B
Laws."
Blueberry or huckleberry leawjfl
the source of the latest extrwdiiB
successfully used in the treataaftl
diabetes.
at his own request in 1918. h ..JH.
With his wife he went-U
to live in the summer of
and when his wife died sfltfiH
from heart trouble he becai)tyj^|
pondent. j^H
Hny oil company
would bef
proud to turn
out a product
of the uniform
excellence of
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Buick for 1928 pleases women because it is easier to dfb*j?
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